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Voting on this site is a GET request to https://news.ycombinator.com/vote https://news.ycombinator.com/vote, so it's not that unusual.

• dbbk 12d ago
  Yet completely wrong
  • hn_throwaway_99 11d ago
    The difference between "read only" and "state updating write" is not nearly as clean cut as people like to pretend, even without regarding the technical differences between GET and POST requests. E.g. sites can have visit counters that update when someone visits, and that's a GET.
    • dbbk 11d ago
      Yes in the year 1999