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I recently reviewed a First Post that began with "0 down vote favorite." I figured it was just some weird thing that was written in that question, but then I searched on Stack Overflow for the phrase "0 down vote favorite." It popped up plenty of questions and answers from different users that began in the same way, and oddly enough, none were down voted. Next, I tried an internet search for "0 down vote favorite." It showed Stack Exchange questions that began with that phrase, and some other sites with a similar situation. A search on Meta shows nothing.

Is this some internet phrase that I am missing? Is it some bug with Stack Exchange that prepends it to certain questions? Is it just people trying to say "don't down-vote this, please favorite this?"

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When you copy content from a post and by mistake catch the vote block while marking then you get that text.

Marking like this

Example marking text

results in

0 down vote favorite I recently reviewed

That is a good opportunity to go through that 69 posts and improve them...

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  • p.s: You were right with question; answers don't have a "favorite" button ;)
    – Matt
    Commented Apr 29, 2013 at 19:31
  • Not all results with down vote favorite in them are necessarily invalid
    – Engineer2021
    Commented Apr 29, 2013 at 19:32
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    @Matt: Looks like there's a few of them as well.
    – hammar
    Commented Apr 29, 2013 at 19:37
  • Reviewing 20 pending edits has never been so quick! 15 maybe 18 out of 20 were related to this question ^^
    – FelipeAls
    Commented Apr 29, 2013 at 19:43
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    How could they don't see that when pasting the text? Why are they blindly copy-pasting something? I've seen this for a lot of duplicate (old) posts.
    – Moha Dehghan
    Commented Apr 29, 2013 at 19:43
  • @FelipeAls: Shame many of them should have been rejected as too minor, as they failed to fix anything else wrong with the post... yes troniczomb, I'm looking at the edits you suggested.
    – Matt
    Commented Apr 29, 2013 at 20:07
  • @MD.Unicorn Often because they've cross posted the question – try and see if you find the duplicates on Google :)
    – slhck
    Commented Apr 29, 2013 at 20:20
  • @slhck Yes, I've already done that and found the duplicate ones.
    – Moha Dehghan
    Commented Apr 29, 2013 at 20:25
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    29 down vote accepted When you copy content from a post and by mistake... | I tried doing the same on this answer and that's what I got, so it works on answers too
    – Doorknob
    Commented Apr 29, 2013 at 23:32

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