I'm suggesting a new privilege of the ability to up vote one's own question after mucho reputation.
What Stack Exchange site reputation level should be given the privilege to up vote one's own question?
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15But why? -----------------– PekkaCommented Nov 22, 2013 at 20:21
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27The ability to downvote your own questions would be more fitting.– Cat Plus PlusCommented Nov 22, 2013 at 20:22
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3Nothing to do with the question, but a red free hand 42 avatar, that's meta!– Marc-AndreCommented Nov 22, 2013 at 20:23
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Well if you have an incredible amount of reputation and you have an incredible question and you think it's incredibly deserving of an up vote then you should have the privilege of up vote that question. @probablyPekka– javaPlease42Commented Nov 22, 2013 at 20:24
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1@CatPlusPlus It should be mandatory. So all questions start at -1. Better yet. All questions should start at -4 so they don't show up on the homepage until someone upvotes them. :P:P:P:P:P:P:P– MysticialCommented Nov 22, 2013 at 20:24
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I'm suggesting we don't.– Johnny BonesCommented Nov 22, 2013 at 20:55
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@java ignoring "having the right to", what positive effect would this have on the stack exchange system?– Richard TingleCommented Nov 22, 2013 at 21:16
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Best judge = MEDUH– CaffeinatedCommented Nov 22, 2013 at 22:56
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This would be somewhat pointless (well, worse).
I'd literally upvote every post I post if able, because:
- Naturally I think they're all useful
- Just to potentially increase the attention my post gets (and to keep up with others doing the same)
- To get reputation, if you were thinking that it would give you reputation
(and I'm sure everyone would do the same with their posts).
I say "worse" because:
- According to your proposal, only high-reputation users will be able to do this, so low-reputation users will be disadvantaged.
- Everyone who doesn't do this to all their posts will be disadvantaged (and if everyone does this to all your posts, why not just do this automatically to all posts?)
There's also the minor issue of users voting according to what score they think a post should have, as opposed to voting based on whether or not it's useful, or because other people are doing the same, but that's a minor issue.
answered Nov 22, 2013 at 20:33
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21I recently wanted to downvote a crappy link-only answer ... only to discover I wrote it 3 years ago.– BartCommented Nov 22, 2013 at 20:36
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2@Bart I'm sure you thought it was useful 3 years ago. Commented Nov 22, 2013 at 20:40
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@Dukeling I'm sure it was considered useful three years ago /grin– user206222Commented Nov 22, 2013 at 20:41