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How do I alert admins about potential vengeful behavior? [duplicate]
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Encouraging people to explain down-votes
Allow users to leave an anonymous comment when voting
I have had four or five down-votes in the past few days on answers that I thought ...
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Proposal: Require anonymous comment with downvotes [duplicate]
Note: this proposal is the similar to a low-voted response to Encouraging people to explain downvotes, added (by someone else) after the question was resolved.
The problem: downvotes without comments ...
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Why not allow downvote only with at least an anonymous comment? [duplicate]
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Leaving an anonymous comment when voting.
Encouraging people to explain down-votes
People downvote with no comments, gives no idea what is wrong with an answer or ...
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Provide (optional) anonymous reasoning field for down-votes [duplicate]
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Leaving an anonymous comment when voting.
Extending the "Please consider adding a comment..." reminder with a comment field bellow which allows to leave an anonymous ...
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Getting notified when we are downvoted [duplicate]
From your comments below I think there are some points in my question that needs clarification:
By downvote I mean the negative rep on the question starting from (-1) that conveys that the question ...
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Downvoter anonymous reply feature [duplicate]
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Allow users to leave an anonymous comment when voting
I've seen many cases where a person downvotes a question/answer and by the means of comments the author requests reason ...
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Encouraging people to explain downvotes
Note: If you're looking for a simple explanation as to why comments aren't required on downvotes, see Why isn't providing feedback mandatory on downvotes, and why are ideas suggesting such ...
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Can we prevent some of the low-quality questions from entering our system?
Stack Overflow has been wildly successful. And maybe in some ways too successful.
I am concerned that Stack Overflow is being inundated by a stream of low-quality questions from users who are ...
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Why do you cast downvotes on answers?
This is a question which started off with a comment, then turned into an answer, and now it's a question in its own right (as suggested by Jeff). I'm not sure where it could go from here :)
It's ...
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Should downvotes on questions be "free"?
As I'm sure you all know, downvotes "cost" 1 reputation. That is, every time you downvote:
-2 to post owner
-1 to you
This is done to make sure downvotes are cast only when you feel ...
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Shouldn't anonymous serial downvoters be banned from SO?
There was a discussion about unexplained anonymous serial down-voting in the C++ room this morning (starting here). The user affected by it explained it to me thus:
It started on a particular Q, ...
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The answer to tactical downvoting problem?
As we know, the tactical downvoting (I'm talking especially about SO, as I don't know about other sites) is more and more becoming a serious problem, as I see, the community can't stop this behavior ...
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So annoyed with no-comment, vindictive downvoting [duplicate]
I have been so annoyed recently by people who downvote my answers with no comments. Usually it falls into one of two categories
The asker is asking a question that is inherently impossible or ...
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Haterade being poured on questions [duplicate]
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Could we please be a bit nicer to the noobs?
I don't know if people had read the FAQ over at StackOverflow but, it really seems that people that are answering questions are ...
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What do I do when I think someone downvotes because of jealousy?
I think that someone downvoted me after becoming jealous because I pointed out that if possible you should not wait in a loop but instead use the system's sleep( int ) function. I downvoted him and ...