Questions tagged [down-votes]
Questions specific to down-votes, the community's way of telling peers that their content can be improved. Down-votes on meta site have different meanings.
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Why is the site so set on putting down new users?
Disclaimer:
If I mention any users in this post, I am not attacking them personally. I do not know them and think that they are good people.
I am slightly new to this site, why is it that so many ...
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Change the official criterion for downvoting to exclude causes for closing
At the moment, it is suggested to users that they should downvote if
This question does not show any research effort; it is unclear or not useful
This is a pretty lax criterion. Also, it overlaps ...
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Why was my question put on hold? [closed]
I am a Senior Developer, FoxPro and C#, with 25 years experience and 50 years old. For this question
Searching for equivalent of (MSSQL or Rushmore) index optimization for LINQ
it was put on hold ...
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No penalty on downvoting questions? [duplicate]
Downvoting a question doesn't reduce reputation. Due to this, users downvote questions even if it deserves an upvote.
Can there be a downvote penalty for downvoting questions? Like -1 on downvoting ...
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Down votes without any reason [duplicate]
I am new member of Islam site and I put my first question. At the beginning of my question was short and unclear. So, it is put on hold and I edited the question. But, still it get down votes.
I like ...
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Request: Don't delete duplicate questions with unique titles and please think twice before downvoting them
Judging by the score, it seems a sizable number of users appear to disagree with the request. The downvotes don't bother me, they don't, but I would like to be sure that everyone is on the same page ...
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Why Stack Exchange is no longer a fun place for learning and sharing knowledge, and how we can change this [closed]
I have been a longtime lurker on Stack Exchange, and enjoyed using it as a reference and learning tool.
I am happy to see it grow, but I am increasingly worried about where it's going.
Prompted by ...
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Are users given back rep if another person compromises their account and uses it to post spam? [duplicate]
What if some person has access to someone else's Stack Exchange account (compromised credentials, open laptop, etc.) and goes ahead and posts something useless or even offensive garnering multiple ...
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The psychology of downvoting others without telling them why! [duplicate]
I have been active on different SO/SE forums for quite a while. I have rarely downvoted anyone. I usually try to
let the person know what is wrong with their question/answer first and help them ...
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What happens to a user who has received a ton of downvotes?
I was always curious to what happens to users that have a ton of downvotes on their question/topics. Maybe I'm just finding this unfair for this guy. After all, he is just doing his job to post an ...
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Is requesting downvotes for my own post against the rules?
I would like to see if it's allowed to have people downvote my own post for arbitrary reasons. Is this allowed?
Will I get banned for requesting downvotes on my own posts??
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Long posts (even good ones) are being downvoted on a lot of stack sites
I have been receiving poor upvote/downvote ratios on my questions on cs-theory. I've become upset over 1 downvote because of my poor ratio that could lead to a question ban.
This time my honest and ...
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Should I keep downvoting questions with answers that aren't accepted?
Sometimes people ask questions and never bother to follow up and accept the (obviously correct) answer.
My solution is to downvote the question. Even if the question is good, they were too lazy to ...
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Will a downvote from a user below 125 give you reputation penalty (-2)?
Will a downvote from a user below 125 give you reputation penalty (-2)?
I just want to know how it works. I tried to register a new account and downvoted on one of my answers. I didn't get the -2 ...
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What could be legitimate reasons for heavily downvoting a post on meta [duplicate]
On this site, I've not seen a whole lot of very upvoted questions, unlike on other sites.
But in the past couple of days alone at least two questions have been downvoted up to 26 times. I personally ...
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Achievements dropdown no longer showing downvotes cast
The achievements dropdown doesn't light up for negative reputation changes, but until today, if you downvoted an answer and then opened the dropdown, you'd see an entry for that downvote. It would ...
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Repeated downvotes on my posts [duplicate]
Yesterday someone started downvoting my answers. I ignored the downvotes knowing that the system will reverse them, and the system did reverse some of those downvotes.
Today I flagged one of my ...
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Downvote bot or random downvoting? [closed]
I posted this question a few minutes ago:
Functional difference between normal method, Task, Paraller.invoke, async await
And literally a second after I published it, I got an uncommented downvote.
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How do I find the user that has been downvoted the most on a Stack Exchange website?
How do I find the user that has been downvoted the most (both in terms of answers or questions) on a Stack Exchange website?
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Creepy user digs my old questions and downvotes them once a day [duplicate]
There is a creepy user who answered my question on Stack Overflow that I haven't accepted the answer with. He then keeps leaving a comment for like three consecutive days, asking for updates on ...
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Why people are downvoting this question? [closed]
Can anybody please tell me what is wrong with this question?
People are down voting it and I am not getting any comments telling the reason.
Which technology would be good to use to calculate ...
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Given the positive “public opinion” on explaining downvotes, why is it disallowed? [duplicate]
See this question:
Encouraging people to explain downvotes
considering the opinions expressed in there, I don't understand why downvote-explaining comments are disallowed:
Not every downvote can be ...
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Please re-consider allowing edits to notify downvoters
This question is inspired by this excellent question. It asks to revisit a feature request that was denied by co-founder Jeff Atwood from 2010. The feature request has a positive score of 142, Jeff ...
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Why does it take time to lose reputation for downvoting? [duplicate]
Occasionally, I downvote a bad answer but the -1 is not subtracted immediately and may sometimes take a few hours. Why is that the case? Why is it not immediate like when gaining a reputation for an ...
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Why are questions downvoted because of grammatical errors?
Of what use is it to the community for someone to take the time to down-vote a question I posted because of two typos?
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Feature Request: Require comment for downvotes if user reaches reputation threshold [duplicate]
So the idea behind this is quite simple, and I have also not seen any similar solution suggested in meta(after a quick search). Succinctly, I have seen both on my answers and questions(as has anyone) ...
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I deleted a downvoted post but my account reputation is still behind after one hour. Why?
I recently posted an answer to this question, which got downvotes, so I deleted it. But I didn't get the reputation points back even after one hour.
This seems to be a bug, since the documentation ...
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Is there a habit to downvote new users by default? [closed]
Continuing a rather dated Downvoting of new user questions, I wonder whether meta SE has a habit to downvote new users. Every single question of mine got downvoted, sometimes with a reason, sometimes ...
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VoteTypeIds in the context of Comments for StackOverflow Posts
Known information:
As per this answer comments can't be downvoted.
VoteTypeId 3 means downvote on a given post. referred answer
My Assumption: Comments should not be downvoted and therefore Votes ...
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How to prove I didn't downvote? [duplicate]
In Merge two mysql tables from all row in table 1, but extra row in table 2 by id column the answerer accused me of downvoting his answer, just because I made comments that his answer doesn't really ...
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What limits should we place on automated voting?
This has come up a few times now in moderator circles, but with the exception of Andy's Robot there hasn't been a lot of public discussion that's applicable. That feels kinda negligent to me, so... ...
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What good is downvoting really? Seems not to serve much useful purpose [duplicate]
I'm not a fan of the downvoting feature in general; frankly, I think it should be removed from all of the stackexchange sites.
Negative feedback leads to negative results. I recognize that the intent ...
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Is the ability to downvote questions necessary?
I'm wondering whether the ability to downvote questions in the currently implemented way is the best way to handle bad questions. I'm ignoring meta sites for this, as they're far more complicated and ...
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Why isn't providing feedback mandatory on downvotes, and why are ideas suggesting such negatively received?
This question was originally from this Meta Stack Overflow question.
While there are many posts related to this issue which get closed as duplicates of Encouraging people to explain downvotes, ...
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Some advice that I “hope” the heads of the community could consider [closed]
Hope you guys could take a minute and think about it.
In my opinion, this community is "WAY TOO HARSH"!!!
You guys put TOO MUCH emphasize on Do your research first before you post a question, but ...
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Italic on heavily downvoted answer is not gray [duplicate]
https://academia.stackexchange.com/a/55322/14341
Is this a bug?
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Should users be notified with new comments/edits on posts that they have downvoted on? [duplicate]
Many times we've seen this scenario happen - a question was posted and currently doesn't meet the standard or is unclear. A user with voting privileges sees the content, downvotes it, and moves on ...
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Why are heavily-downvoted accepted answers still listed first? [duplicate]
The answer that sparked the question is this one where the answerer provided a completely wrong answer to the question and was consequently heavily downvoted. However, the answer seems to have ...
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GoP - The Game of Points: Critical Sneak Attacks (Grant downvotes are commented soon) [duplicate]
Lets see how a downvote without a comment explaining the reason, is like a critical sneak attack:
We don't know who did it.
We don't know why they did it.
The target can't defend him/herself.
The ...
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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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Is downvoting a well-written question by a beginner OK? [closed]
Recently, I've noticed that a lot of C++ questions get downvoted within minutes of them being asked. It must be the season of exams as we do see a lot of basic questions being passed by.
To me, that ...
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Does down-vote get reviewed or can I apply for review if got downvoted [duplicate]
Friend of mine, got upvoted for one of his nice answer and got downvoted for same answer by someone without any reason. Even reason for downvote is also not mentioned in comment.
It is assumed that ...
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Is it OK to downvote an answer in a question that I also answered if it is wrong?
Take a look here. I have answered the question providing all the necessary information and a piece of working code to illustrate the results. However there is another answer providing the same logic ...
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Should voting be limited on a question said user also answers? [duplicate]
Consider...
A "downvote" will move an answer farther down the page, (an upvote, vice versa).
According to the instructors of this Udemy course, internal social media research found that posts are ...
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Why do users downvote duplicates, but not origins?
I seen it several times before, but still can’t clearly understand: why do user downvote posts which a closed as duplicates, and on the same time don’t downvote origin posts?
Do they want to drop ...
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Automatically dismiss 'Please consider adding a comment' message when loading next review
Whenever you cast a downvote, if you have less than 2k reputation, you get a message reminding you
Please consider adding a comment if you think this post can be improved.
This used to be shown ...
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What about increasing negative reputation of down-votes?
I know that with down-voting an answer the OP will take -2 reputation per down-vote.
I see some answers with some up-votes and some down-votes for example consider these voting:
up-votes | down-votes ...
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Why is the vote down privilege at 100 reputation instead of 125? [duplicate]
Meta Stack Exchange has the voting down privilege awarded at 100 reputation, rather than 125 reputation like the rest of the network. Other meta sites also require 125 reputation. Why does it take 25 ...
asked Dec 14 '18 at 18:17
Pika the Wizard of the Whales
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Is it a good idea to delete a question or answer as soon as it gets a downvote?
I have asked a low quality question or one that has an obvious answer or an otherwise question likely to be downvoted. These you should delete if the question itself is bad not about it being worded ...
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Unable to see changes on reputation tab from downvotes [duplicate]
A little while ago, I lost a little bit of rep from downvotes. However, there was no -2 shown on my reputation tab, but when I clicked on the tab, I could see the changes. In other words, I had to ...
asked Nov 14 '18 at 3:37
Pika the Wizard of the Whales
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