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For the "Our expectations for users" section:

Voting - Our voting system is central to how Stack Exchange works. Votes are how the Community signals great content and rewards its members for their contributions. Improperly cast votes undermine the integrity of the platform. Read more on how users are expected to use the voting system.

The linked Help Center page says very little about how users are expected to vote. It just says at the bottom:

Voting up a question or answer signals to the rest of the community that a post is interesting, well-researched, and useful, while voting down a post signals the opposite: that the post contains wrong information, is poorly researched, or fails to communicate information.

And it doesn't say anything about fraudulent (Ex. sock-puppet voting on self) or serial voting, which really if you're going to talk about how we're expected to vote, should be part of the document or linked resource. Please fix that. I suppose updating the Help Center page would work.

Actually, why not just add a link in that bullet point to the "Disruptive use of tooling policy" and "Inauthentic usage policy" sections, which do cover various bad voting things?

Also, as far as my understanding goes, people are free to vote in whatever way they want as long as it's not fraudulent or serial, and it's just recommended (in the vote tooltips and Help Center) that votes be used to indicate usefulness. So what's up with saying that we expect people to vote in particular ways? That seems to go against my general understanding (aside from the fraudulent and serial voting part).

For the "Our expectations for users" section:

Voting - Our voting system is central to how Stack Exchange works. Votes are how the Community signals great content and rewards its members for their contributions. Improperly cast votes undermine the integrity of the platform. Read more on how users are expected to use the voting system.

The linked Help Center page says very little about how users are expected to vote. It just says at the bottom:

Voting up a question or answer signals to the rest of the community that a post is interesting, well-researched, and useful, while voting down a post signals the opposite: that the post contains wrong information, is poorly researched, or fails to communicate information.

And it doesn't say anything about fraudulent (Ex. sock-puppet voting on self) or serial voting, which really if you're going to talk about how we're expected to vote, should be part of the document or linked resource. Please fix that. I suppose updating the Help Center page would work.

status-completed Actually, why not just add a link in that bullet point to the "Disruptive use of tooling policy" and "Inauthentic usage policy" sections, which do cover various bad voting things?

Also, as far as my understanding goes, people are free to vote in whatever way they want as long as it's not fraudulent or serial, and it's just recommended (in the vote tooltips and Help Center) that votes be used to indicate usefulness. So what's up with saying that we expect people to vote in particular ways? That seems to go against my general understanding (aside from the fraudulent and serial voting part).

For the "Our expectations for users" section:

Voting - Our voting system is central to how Stack Exchange works. Votes are how the Community signals great content and rewards its members for their contributions. Improperly cast votes undermine the integrity of the platform. Read more on how users are expected to use the voting system.

The linked Help Center page says very little about how users are expected to vote. It just says at the bottom:

Voting up a question or answer signals to the rest of the community that a post is interesting, well-researched, and useful, while voting down a post signals the opposite: that the post contains wrong information, is poorly researched, or fails to communicate information.

And it doesn't say anything about fraudulent (Ex. sock-puppet voting on self) or serial voting, which really if you're going to talk about how we're expected to vote, should be part of the document or linked resource. Please fix that. I suppose updating the Help Center page would work.

Actually, why not just add a link in that bullet point to the "Disruptive use of tooling policy" and "Inauthentic usage policy" sections, which do cover various bad voting things?

Also, as far as my understanding goes, people are free to vote in whatever way they want as long as it's not fraudulent or serial, and it's just recommended (in the vote tooltips and Help Center) that votes be used to indicate usefulness. So what's up with saying that we expect people to vote in particular ways? That seems to go against my general understanding (aside from the fraudulent and serial voting part).

Side-note: I'm really glad to see "We ask users to vote for the post, not the person who wrote it." in the "Disruptive use of tooling policy" section. As far as I know, that was previously just "common wisdom not put into official writing" spread across various meta posts.

For the "Our expectations for users" section:

Voting - Our voting system is central to how Stack Exchange works. Votes are how the Community signals great content and rewards its members for their contributions. Improperly cast votes undermine the integrity of the platform. Read more on how users are expected to use the voting system.

The linked Help Center page says very little about how users are expected to vote. It just says at the bottom:

Voting up a question or answer signals to the rest of the community that a post is interesting, well-researched, and useful, while voting down a post signals the opposite: that the post contains wrong information, is poorly researched, or fails to communicate information.

And it doesn't say anything about fraudulent (Ex. sock-puppet voting on self) or serial voting, which really if you're going to talk about how we're expected to vote, should be part of the document or linked resource. Please fix that. I suppose updating the Help Center page would work.

Actually, why not just add a link in that bullet point to the "Disruptive use of tooling policy" and "Inauthentic usage policy" sections, which do cover various bad voting things?

Also, as far as my understanding goes, people are free to vote in whatever way they want as long as it's not fraudulent or serial, and it's just recommended (in the vote tooltips and Help Center) that votes be used to indicate usefulness. So what's up with saying that we expect people to vote in particular ways? That seems to go against my general understanding (aside from the fraudulent and serial voting part).

For the "Our expectations for users" section:

Voting - Our voting system is central to how Stack Exchange works. Votes are how the Community signals great content and rewards its members for their contributions. Improperly cast votes undermine the integrity of the platform. Read more on how users are expected to use the voting system.

The linked Help Center page says very little about how users are expected to vote. It just says at the bottom:

Voting up a question or answer signals to the rest of the community that a post is interesting, well-researched, and useful, while voting down a post signals the opposite: that the post contains wrong information, is poorly researched, or fails to communicate information.

And it doesn't say anything about fraudulent (Ex. sock-puppet voting on self) or serial voting, which really if you're going to talk about how we're expected to vote, should be part of the document or linked resource. Please fix that. I suppose updating the Help Center page would work.

Actually, why not just add a link in that bullet point to the "Disruptive use of tooling policy" section, which does cover various bad voting things?

Also, as far as my understanding goes, people are free to vote in whatever way they want as long as it's not fraudulent or serial, and it's just recommended (in the vote tooltips and Help Center) that votes be used to indicate usefulness. So what's up with saying that we expect people to vote in particular ways? That seems to go against my general understanding (aside from the fraudulent and serial voting part).

For the "Our expectations for users" section:

Voting - Our voting system is central to how Stack Exchange works. Votes are how the Community signals great content and rewards its members for their contributions. Improperly cast votes undermine the integrity of the platform. Read more on how users are expected to use the voting system.

The linked Help Center page says very little about how users are expected to vote. It just says at the bottom:

Voting up a question or answer signals to the rest of the community that a post is interesting, well-researched, and useful, while voting down a post signals the opposite: that the post contains wrong information, is poorly researched, or fails to communicate information.

And it doesn't say anything about fraudulent (Ex. sock-puppet voting on self) or serial voting, which really if you're going to talk about how we're expected to vote, should be part of the document or linked resource. Please fix that. I suppose updating the Help Center page would work.

Actually, why not just add a link in that bullet point to the "Disruptive use of tooling policy" and "Inauthentic usage policy" sections, which do cover various bad voting things?

Also, as far as my understanding goes, people are free to vote in whatever way they want as long as it's not fraudulent or serial, and it's just recommended (in the vote tooltips and Help Center) that votes be used to indicate usefulness. So what's up with saying that we expect people to vote in particular ways? That seems to go against my general understanding (aside from the fraudulent and serial voting part).

Side-note: I'm really glad to see "We ask users to vote for the post, not the person who wrote it." in the "Disruptive use of tooling policy" section. As far as I know, that was previously just "common wisdom not put into official writing" spread across various meta posts.