Timeline for Meaning of downvotes in Meta vs Main sites?
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| Apr 30, 2018 at 14:24 | comment | added | Jason Bassford | It means a great deal to anybody who has a low reputation. If somebody new keeps getting downvoted, they will never gain any privileges. Even if somebody has a large amount of reputation, the principle itself seems wrong. (And, no. I'm not going to downvote you because I disagree with you—despite you actually asking me to. That's my whole problem. For me to downvote you would mean I was hypocritical.) | |
| Jul 1, 2009 at 10:26 | comment | added | Jonik | Reputation does have one very concrete meaning (or corollary), i.e., the elevated editing & moderation privileges. For example, it slightly irks me that currently I can't fix tagging on questions here on meta... | |
| Jun 29, 2009 at 19:10 | history | answered | Paolo Bergantino | CC BY-SA 2.5 |