For anybody who has been having trouble voting and/or posting things on the ESPN smackboards, here are a couple tips that I have discovered.
1) If ESPN is not letting you vote, all you have to do is log out and log back in again.
2) If the comments box is idling out on you before you can post a comment, all you have to do is click on the screen outside the box and then click on the comment box again. It should re-connect you. You don't have to re-type whatever you wrote.