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20 questions linked to/from Is there an actual "pity" or "sympathy" upvote problem?
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We need to be a little less hostile
I've noticed a distressing tendency for questions that seem basic or overly short to be immediately closed and downvoted into oblivion.
Case in point: How can I tell if a DOM object is out of the ...
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Should questions closed as "not a real question" and "off topic" get an automatic downvote?
We currently have five standard close reasons network wide:
exact duplicate
This question covers exactly the same ground as earlier questions on this topic; its answers may be merged with ...
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What purpose does downvoting questions serve?
I understand the purpose of up/downvoting answers -- some answers are better than others, some answers may be wrong, .etc. With regard to questions, though, there are other mechanisms to deal with "...
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What is there to gain by blocking permanently a user for making "bad" or "unpopular" questions? [closed]
I know "why has my account been blocked?" must have been asked a thousand time but my question is this:
I am learning iOS development. I'm going through Apple's documentation. I get stuck, desperate ...
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Is it reasonable to upvote in order to counter what I think is an unjustified downvote? [duplicate]
Sometimes I see a question that has been downvoted and I don't agree with the downvote at all (for example if a comment that explains the downvote shows a misunderstanding of the question, or if I ...
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Users should be able to delete their own marginal questions and answers without risking an IP address ban
Yesterday, a user was temporarily IP address banned because they deleted a couple of their own questions that didn't get upvotes.
Isn't that a little ass-backwards? Shouldn't we be encouraging users ...
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Downvoting to compensate for many upvotes: abusive?
From the comments on this question, is it okay for one to downvote a question in order to compensate for apparently too many upvotes? This seems like an abuse of the voting system. This is what I ...
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Is there an actual "accept ALL the suggested edits" problem?
One common complaint on MSO about suggested edits is that some users blindly accept all suggested edits, no matter how minor or incorrect they may be. It seems to come up especially frequently in the ...
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Reversing and redownvoting to force reputation loss
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I am aware of the reasons reputation has a floor of 1, and I think that's just fine. Occasionally I will downvote a post whose OP has a reputation of 1. I'm OK with how the downvote will ...
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How much bias is there in voting?
There seem to be two large possible sources of bias, that is, things which could cause different voting on identical answers:
we could be more likely to upvote answers for high-rep users, especially ...
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Pity upvote point parity [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Should we reduce rep bonus for upvotes on posts with a negative score?
The issue of "Pity-Upvotes" has received a bit of attention, most notibly here: Is there an actual "...
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Should sympathy votes be used to counter unexplained downvotes? [duplicate]
Summary
There's been a lot of activity about mass down voting today, and what seemed like a lot of mass sympathy voting, so I'm asking about how we should handle sympathy voting.
Argument Against:
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Has anyone studied the effect of post score on future votes on that post?
Has anyone considered running analytics on this?
For example, if one were to mock up multiple sample SE posts, or clone existing ones, what would be the effect on perceptions as regards...
...the ...
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A better down-voting mechanism? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Should the weight of downvotes be increased?
I think the current voting system has a problem as it causes users to act dishonestly and complicates their decision making ...
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Suspicious upvotes on that user
I've came across the posts of a user from review queue.
Those are terribly bad questions, taken out of context, lacking even the understanding of Java. But all of them have upvotes, and comments ...
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