Questions tagged [score]
Means the total number of upvotes minus the total number of downvotes.
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What are the most upvoted/downvoted questions and answers on the sites?
What are the most downvoted questions and answers on Stack Overflow, Server Fault, Meta, and Super User history to date?
Similarly, what are the most upvoted questions and answers on SO, SF, Meta, ...
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Can we exempt negatively-scored accepted answers from getting the top spot? [duplicate]
Similar to this request but narrower, I'm suggesting we make a particular exception for negatively-scored accepted answers (those with score less than zero, or some other threshold like -3), so that ...
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Use "score" instead of "votes" in the list of questions
When viewing questions in the normal, "Interesting Questions" tab, (or any other view for that matter), the question's score is displayed to its left, and is labeled "votes".
But is it the correct ...
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Decrease the required view count to prevent Roomba deletion when score = 0 on smaller sites
The required view count to avoid auto-deletion of a question when score = 0 is too high.
As an example: http://superuser.com/q/1472443/116475 had 562 views within 1.1 year. This is way more views than ...
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Clarify what "score" means in badge descriptions
I've seen several cases where newcomers are confused about not receiving badges like Nice Question and Good Answer, even though they have posts with "scores" that seem to justify the achievement (or ...
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How is the 'Score' on the Top Users page calculated?
I am trying to test out my wrapper for the API by writing a little test to calculate the score of a user in a particular tag.
I can't seem to make my totals add up to the sites'. This is most likely ...
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Disqualify a question from Hot Network Questions if it has more answers than net votes
It's been fairly well established at this point that the Hot Network Questions mechanism can sometimes cause a question to blow up out of control (basically because they cause an influx of visitors ...
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Votes vs Score in review queue [duplicate]
The review queue gives the reviewer an indication of the post quality by means of the post votes (3 in this case):
However, this is actually the post score (6 up-votes minus 3 down-votes = 3 score):
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A display of a post's score shouldn't claim to be a display of the post's number of votes
On certain tabs in your activity page, there is a number next to a post which is labeled as referring to the number of votes. For example, in the Bounties tab:
However, this is not quite an accurate ...
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Are questions by veteran users better received than questions by new users?
This now deleted question (10k only) stated that questions by new users are generally received worse than other questions. It was based on anecdotal (n=1) evidence, but are there some statistics from ...
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Use abbreviations for 1000+ score in linked posts
I don't really enjoy the ragged view of linked posts:
This feature request is to use a format that suggested in Related questions with over 99 score display incorrectly; something that matches the ...
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What is the score of a post?
How can we know the score of a post? Is it counted by number of user upvotes or it is counted with the normal reputation score?
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Does the power law apply to Stack Overflow post scores?
Is the distribution of net votes to questions or answers on Stack Overflow modeled by a power law?
In other words, if you ranked all questions by score, are there (roughly) x times as many at rank i ...
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Answers in top Network Posts showing incorrect score
There is already a question Top Network Posts showing incorrect score which is posted around a month ago (which was fixed). My question reports a similar issue of showing inaccurate scores along with ...
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"Score of" loses translation after voting on question
In the review queues the score of a question (related to the currently reviewed item) is displayed, e.g. in the low quality posts queue:
Here all looks fine until you make a vote on the question. ...
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Why does the Tags section of the profile count questions asked, but not their score?
Note: This question addresses part of what I'm asking here, but not everything. I also want to know why the number of questions for a given tag is included if the score is not.
Also note: This ...
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Incorrect answer score for a top post in my Network Profile
I've experienced the same error described in Answers in top Network Posts showing incorrect score for my answer about the solvability of y = xeˣ. Its score has remained constant at 6 for a long ...
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Questions with a score of -1000 and lower are not rounded in the iOS app [duplicate]
Questions with a score of 1000 or higher are rounded, e.g. 1380 becomes 1.4k. This doesn't happen for questions with score of -1000 or lower, resulting in a very small text (it's readable in the ...
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Make links somewhat more visible in negative-score posts
Right now the grayed-out style of negative-score posts also results in links being shown just like regular text.
This is especially annoying in case of well-hidden spam since it's easy to overlook (...
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How can I see the number of up / down votes on my own posts without 1000 rep? [duplicate]
I would really like to be able to see my own post's score. How can I do this?
This is different from How do you view vote history for a question or answer? or Add some sort of vote activity indicator?...
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Reduce the amount of rep required to view upvotes and downvotes
In the FAQ it says:
1000 Show total up and down vote counts
I'm not sure why you need 1000 rep to do this.
It's possible to find this information out via the API (and the data dumps) so it's ...
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Can we start indicating that there is an accepted answer at the start of the Answers section on a question?
I was on Stack Overflow looking for an answer to a question. The default (I presume) sort didn't look hopeful, but I wanted to know if there was an accepted answer to look for or to just sort by score ...
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Tag badge on zero score accepted answer
I searched in previous questions but didn't find an answer about earning the "Tag badge".
If my answer was accepted without upvotes, does it not help me get the desired tag badge? (I did earn the "...
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Large down-vote count doesn't display negative sign [duplicate]
Consider the question Don't close questions where the user has requested that it not be closed:
The large number of down-votes displays as 199 rather than a score of -199.
This is clearly ...
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Top Network Posts showing incorrect score
There's a post in my list of Top Network Posts that is showing an incorrect score. The second post listed there shows a score of 14. But if you actually go to the post you see that the score is 15.
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Distinguish zero score answers with upvotes
Recent posts about bumping questions by Community ♦ led me to the question:
Should questions with 0 score answers be in the Unanswered list, if those answers have a non-zero count of votes?
My ...
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Trailing whitespace in collapsed vote score
This one is a design nitpick that I think is worth posting because I've noticed it repeatedly. There's a trailing whitespace in the collapsed vote score if we select it:
But if we compare it with the ...
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Show question/answer/comment score in activity list
When viewing my activity I would like to see the score for each post (questions, answers, and even comments). This would help me get a pictures of how my recent posts have done without having to click ...
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Post score showing inconsistently on flag history page and general layout wonkiness
Starting a few minutes ago, I noticed that my flag history on multiple sites now shows post score for only some flagged posts rather than all of them, as was the previous behavior. Considering the ...
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Can someone explain how the tag points work?
I have a tag that has this information:
102 TagName x113
When I hover over it, it says:
"Asked 12 non-wiki questions with a total score of 64.
Answered 101 non-wiki questions with a total score of ...
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How do I determine the score of my questions?
I have been banned from asking questions on a Stack Exchange site. I now want to edit the questions I have asked with a negative score. Where can I see my question score?
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Calculation of Score when earning a specific tag badge [duplicate]
Take for example the Linq bronze badge, where the description is
Earned at least 100 total score for at least 20 answers in the linq
tag
How is total score calculated? is it based on the sum of ...
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Score for question looks different than for answer
I notice the font for question score seems to scale when it is 4 digits to fit rather than wrap. Same doesn't happen for answer though.
Noticed this on question Is Java "pass-by-reference"...
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How does searching by relevance work when searching a score range or threshold?
When I search for score:.-1 (for posts with a negative score) by relevance on Stack Overflow, I get a variety of questions and answers from a varying number of years ago. How are these results ranked?
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Top Answers in network profile shows incorrect score
This post of mine has a score of 13, but the network profile page shows that it has 14:
This seems to be a recur of this bug; @Catija's answer says it's been fixed. Can we fix that (again)?
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Is it possible to see which percentile I'm in for the given year?
I see on my profile below my reputation score "top x% this month". My questions are:
1) Is it possible to see which specific percentile I'm in? I don't know if they just show "10%" for everyone in ...
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Should the front page say "score" rather than "votes"? [duplicate]
This is just a minor detail, but the number we see on the front page is not really the number of votes. It's the score of the question.
For example, the number 161 here is the score, not the votes. ...
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Why sometimes the number of total-votes is different between various communities? [duplicate]
I think the algorithm of calculating the number of votes for each question/answer is different between different communities.
Here is one of my question on the StackExchange:
As you see, ...
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SO reputation score just plummeted? [duplicate]
Can anyone explain why my SO reputation just plummeted from just over 2,000 to 1,200? (User: ILMV).
I started with 1,997 points
Answered a question
Edited my answer a couple times
Received a up vote ...
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Obtaining the distribution of upvotes on questions for specific Stack Exchange sites
I'm wondering if there any way to obtain, for a specific Stack Exchange site such as Philosophy, how many questions exist that have 0 upvotes, 1 upvote, -1, etc.
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Vote without score?
Maybe I'm interpreting this picture incorrectly, but it looks like a vote without score. As far as I can tell I got a single upvote and no downvotes for both these questions, but the '10' doesn't show ...
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What was the original intention for automatically deleting old, unanswered questions with +1 score and a deleted owner?
According to this answer to How does deleting work? What can cause a post to be deleted, and what does that actually mean? What are the criteria for deletion? (which is tagged faq), the Community user ...
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Network profile shows 117 score on my top voted question, but it actually has 118 score
In my SE network profile, I see 117 score for my top voted question. But if you visit the question, you'll find that it has 118 score. The last vote I got on that question was at least a week ago, ...
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Add an explanatory tooltip to the question's score and number of stars
On the left of each question, add a tooltip (i.e. title attribute) to the number with the score (up/down votes result) and the number of people who starred this. Suggested wordings:
"Question's ...
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upvoteCount contains post score, and downvoteCount is unused
According to https://schema.org/Comment:
Property
Expected Type
Description
downvoteCount
Integer
The number of downvotes this question, answer or comment has received from the community.
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Inconsistent tooltips for the post's score on flag history page between questions and answers
On the flag history page, each post shown has its score as a number on the left-hand side. Hovering over this brings up a tooltip. However, whether the number itself is included in said hovertext ...
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Vote counts can't fit the minus sign [duplicate]
The vote counts seem to have enough room to accomodate 3 digits and a negative sign:
However when the score is expanded to show +/- vote counts...
The minus sign gets cropped off somehow.
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Add 'k' suffix for question score where appropriate [duplicate]
I suggest using the k suffix for question scores where appropriate, just as it is used when displaying for instance reputation, view counts, "people reached" etc.
Example: I suggest changing this
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Vote counts don't update on posts when votes are invalidated
When votes are invalidated on posts, either due to voter deletion or invalidation by CM's, the votes on the posts are not updated until someone clicks to "View the upvote and downvote totals", or ...
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List of badges - add hyperlink to score explanation page
Every now and then, people misunderstand the term score when it comes to badges (e.g. just recently Badges not awarded even after eligibility). This happens to new users who either don't bother to ...
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