Upvotes
For questions, upvote if you need the answer to the posed question. For
For answers, upvote if the information is useful to you.
Downvotes
For questions, downvote if the question is poorly worded, or if it has been asked and answered before, or if the question violates the established community guidelines.
For answers, downvote if it contains misleading or false information.
On meta sites, the voting rules appear to be a bit different for questions that are asking for a capability to be implemented:
For a question that is a suggestion that you want implemented, upvote the question, downvote if you do not want the suggestion implemented.