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What purpose does downvoting questions serve?
Why bother, and what's the point, behind downvoting questions posted by new users who won't see any negative rep repercussions?
Being on only 1 rep, they stand to lose no rep at all from being downvoted.
Shouldn't we just vote to close instead?
There's more purpose to downvoting than simply affecting the reputation of the user -- otherwise why bother voting on community wiki questions and answers? It affects the sort order in search results, such as when searching within a tag.