Questions tagged [down-votes]
Questions specific to downvotes, the community's way of telling peers that their content can be improved. Downvotes on meta sites have different meanings.
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How to report malicious voting? [closed]
I was tried flag post, but all the flags was be denied, how can i report malicious voting? What need i to tell to moderator on flag description? I need some help.
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One-line private comment when downvoting [duplicate]
I got a few downvoted questions, and would love to know why. I think it would be really good if it were possible for downvoters to write even a few words as to why they did so.
This is not because I ...
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How does downvote feedback work? [duplicate]
If you don't have the necessary reputation to downvote something on a given site, it'll say:
Thanks for the feedback! You need at least 125 reputation to cast a vote, but your feedback has been ...
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Allow users with the ability to Vote To Delete to always see how many delete votes an answer or closed question has
Users with more than 10,000 reputation on sites with "Full" reputation requirements and 2,000 reputation on sites with "Beta" reputation requirements have the "Access to ...
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What can I do if originally accepted and upvoted answers suddenly got a large number of downvotes? [duplicate]
The last two weeks saw an exceptionally (and to some extent, abnormally, since I'm new to SO and don't have much posts) large number of downvotes to my answers. Most of those answers originally got at ...
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Why does querying for a post with -2000 votes return one with -1?
https://meta.stackexchange.com/search?tab=votes&q=score%3a..-2000, for a reason unbeknownst to me, returns solely How is it possible that "I" (the user Krumelur) exists twice?, which has ...
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Can we readdress the reputation penalty for downvoting answers?
I believe it is time to readdress the penalty to downvote an answer. At one point it may have served a purpose but I don't believe that is true anymore. My motivation comes from search results ...
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Why is SE Meta so downvotish? [closed]
I see many questions on Meta SE that are very interesting to me but many long-time users are so quick to down vote. Why can't Meta SE be more inviting to new members and give real solutions to improve ...
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How can I stop receiving downvotes from a question that the community is keeping up? [duplicate]
Recently, I read the help article on bounties. I initially misread the article and asked the following question based on that misunderstanding: Why Manually Award Bounties?
This was obviously an error ...
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Does downvoting reputation loss get regained when an answer is deleted? [duplicate]
Obviously, reputation is regained when a question or answer is deleted. And reputation is subtracted (-1) on my downvote- as in when I downvote a post.
But what happens if I downvoted a answer, lost 2 ...
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Does the network currently promote "shows no effort" as a good reason to downvote a post?
A little history.
Many years ago the network settled for banning comments to low-effort-questions that contained "Let me google that for you" links in an attempt to be more "welcoming&...
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Question downvotes issues in regards to the points system [closed]
I noticed that recently I am losing reputation points due to a question that gets downvotes. I don't understand how I got the points in the first place, but that's a different story.
I don't want to ...
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What's the benefit of keeping questions around that have negative votes? Isn't it just an embarrassment to the OP?
What's the benefit of keeping questions around that have negative votes? Isn't it just an embarrassment to the OP?
And the OP is discouraged to delete the question if the question has been answered by ...
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