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16 questions linked to/from How many downvotes to push an active question off the "active" list?
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Does downvoting a question help "hide" it? [duplicate]
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How many downvotes to push an active question off the “active” list?
The question Find and replace first space in a string, while very much a question where the OP ...
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What is the threshold for hiding questions on the main page of main sites, local metas, and MSE? [duplicate]
I've looked around at various questions, but I haven't found a clear place where this is documented.
When posts reach a certain (low) score, a post will stop showing up on the main page of whatever ...
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How many down votes does it take on meta for a question to stop from being bumped? [duplicate]
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How many downvotes to push an active question off the “active” list?
The ranking mechanism is different from the main sites, but how different?
On main it seems ...
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Opt-in alpha test for a new Stacks editor
TL;DR: We are testing our new open source Stacks editor that offers both Markdown and rich text input options. If you’re interested in testing it out and giving us feedback, you can opt in by visiting ...
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What are the “spam” and “rude or abusive” (offensive) flags, and how do they work?
When flagging, there are two special case options: spam and rude or abusive.
What is spam, and when should I flag content as such?
What is considered offensive, rude or abusive content?
How does the ...
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How can Meta be made more conducive to discussions?
Disclaimer: This post is quite lenghty. To prevent out of context interpretations I kindly request either reading it in its entirety or not reading it at all. Thank you.
Why am I writing this?
I've ...
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Meta sites' front pages should not hide questions with very low scores
On Meta SO, downvoting merely means "disagree." This convention carried over to per-site metas. But questions with very low scores — e.g. this question on Meta Math SE with net score of -5 &#...
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Does piling up downvotes help the site in any useful way?
I am new here, but I’ve noticed that downvoting on this site tends to be quite virulent with respect to off-topic questions or questions which probably are poorly formulated.
Though I understand ...
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Question DownVoted, what are the consequences?
I haven't posted many questions on Stack Overflow, because I really like to search thoroughly before asking a question.
Friday 15th of March I posted a question, of something I just couldn't find the ...
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How do I see all newest questions (even negatively voted ones) with the new navigation?
I've added the bug tag to this because it appears that you can't display these questions without using search. This is bad for several reasons:
Spam posts disappear from the questions list but can't ...
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Filter for Objective C only
Is there a way I can do a search, without typing "Objective C" each time, and make it my default area? I don't care about C, C++, Android, PHP, etc. (at this point in my life).
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Live question update shows items that wouldn't normally show on the front page
The recently deployed realtime updates display some questions that they shouldn't, based on what would be expected to appear on the front page's active question list:
In the first instance, a ...
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Ask search engines to not index downvoted questions
Since one of the purposes of the SE sites is to make the internet better, and in many ways the window to the internet is provided by the various search engines, wouldn't it be an idea to "hide" ...
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Should we discourage gang mentality with a home page deactivation grace period?
The accumulation of votes is never linear, when we instantly remove a question from the active list for reaching a -4 score we create a system whereby only a couple users can collaborate to push a ...
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Update Help Center page about spam/abusive flags
The Help Center page about the Flag Posts privilege currently states:
What happens when I flag something as spam or abusive?
The spam and abusive flags are designed to automatically eliminate truly ...
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