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56 questions linked to/from Should downvotes on questions be "free"?
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Why is downvoting a question free but downvoting an answer not? [duplicate]
The title basically says it all: "Why is downvoting a question free but downvoting an answer not?"
I ask this because I think bad answers are a lot more damaging than bad questions. If it is a a bad ...
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Downvoting is not causing reputation loss [duplicate]
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Should downvotes on questions be “free”?
Why do I not lose reputation when I downvote posts?
If I downvote a question or answer, it causes 2 points loss to the ...
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Downvoting does not decrease rep [duplicate]
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Should downvotes on questions be “free”?
I went on a downvote spree today (because of low quality homework-style questions). I have not lost any rep during my ...
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Why my downvotes sometimes don't cost me the expected -1 [duplicate]
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I've seen this several times, I downvote a post (question or answer) and my reputation is not decreased by -1.
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Do downvotes on questions I've voted to close not reduce reputation? [duplicate]
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Should downvotes on questions be “free”?
Sometimes while cleaning up old or severely downvoted questions, I'll do quite a few downvotes and close votes in a short ...
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Is there any change in reputation penalty for downvoting? [duplicate]
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Should downvotes on questions be “free”?
I just downvoted a question on Stack Overflow. I don't do this very often so I wonder if there was any change in ...
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Recent feature changes to Stack Exchange
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Recent Reputation History Changes
Update (March, 2012): This has been rolled out to all sites in the network except Area 51.
Behind the scenes we've been hard at work making some changes to how we track reputation. Here are some of ...
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Should Stack Exchange in general be awarding "A"s for Effort?
This just came up again:
homework is not acceptable if the asker has made no effort whatsoever
I'm developing a bit of an involuntary twitch that manifests itself when I encounter the word "effort"...
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Stack Exchange Community Statistics
Many Meta users have asked for statistics that involve data that isn't available through the public data dumps (especially voting-related stats).
In conjunction with the SE team, I will be bringing ...
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What is serial voting and how does it affect me?
I just noticed that I lost a bunch of points from my reputation score, and I used the "reputation" tab on my user profile page to try and track down the cause.
During my investigation, I noticed ...
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We need to be a little less hostile
I've noticed a distressing tendency for questions that seem basic or overly short to be immediately closed and downvoted into oblivion.
Case in point: How can I tell if a DOM object is out of the ...
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If downvoting is so important, why does it cost reputation?
I've just read that downvoting is used to ban poor askers. However, there are many, many members who will never dare downvote anything because of that little 1 rep. (Besides, I think downvoting is not ...
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Why are votes per post on the decrease (what can we do to improve this)?
I just wrote this totally nasty query on data.se (same query including all community wiki questions).
It is ... complicated but this is what it looks at:
It splits up data in to 1 month chunks (2009 -...
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Allow users to leave an anonymous comment when voting
I don't know if people don't explain why they up or down vote because they don't care or because they don't want the person to know they voted on an answer (or question)... But, it might be nice to be ...
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