Questions tagged [voting]
Peer voting on questions and answers gives users most of their reputation, and also usually controls how posts are sorted to the top.
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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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Feature request: author should to be allowed to see who voted his post [duplicate]
Author should to be allowed to see who voted his post to prevent malicious voting.
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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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Votes cast statistic is unclear [duplicate]
Here is the votes cast statistic on my StackOverflow profile:
It says I have voted 4 times this month but 8 times this week. How is that even possible? Does the statistic account for all votes ...
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It looks like I voted even though I have used up all of my daily votes
For some reason, when I attempt to vote after having reached the daily vote limit, it will still look like I voted (it didn't actually count the votes). Could this be fixed?
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What is a pre vote?
As seen in
New Vote Types in latest data dump?,
some new vote types appeared (likely) exclusively in the Stack Overflow data dump. A couple users helped find out what each one meant. However, what ...
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How did a user cast over 100 up/down votes in a day? [duplicate]
https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/164900/178179 seems to say the max number of daily up/down votes is 40. Yet I saw a user with 102 up/down votes within one day. How is it possible to cast over 40 up/...
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It looks like it let me vote without an account (it didn't actually)
Screenshot is below.
Steps to reproduce:
Go to a stack where you do not have an account.
Go to a post where you are able to vote.
Attempt to vote on the post.
Click the "X" on the "...
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Should the vote lock-in time period be increased?
Too often it seems to happen, that there is an answer that describes in detail a procedure which requires re-booting the computer at the end. To re-boot computer, I have to close all windows, and all ...
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Allowing Moderators/high rep users to accept answers on behalf of askers [duplicate]
Relates to Asking users to accept answer when they comment that it answers their question.
Has there been any discussion of allowing users with high levels of rep to accept answers on behalf of ...
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The moderator blocked user accounts due to voting violations [duplicate]
The situation occurred with two accounts: self SVBazuev and my daughter's AnnaBazueva.
When she sees a question that she can answer, she does it.
We often use one device, it happens like this:
I look ...
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I can accept my own answer without waiting for 48 hours. If I retract the accept vote, it shows an error message [duplicate]
I accidentally accepted my own answer at The “View all” community buttons in the Community user's site profiles link to a server error page.
When I accepted my own answer, I was shocked.
Here it ...
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Error message “User has already voted this way. Undo the vote, or change the vote to continue” when trying to retract a delete vote [duplicate]
There is an existing question about the same error but when trying to unfollow: Error message “User has already voted this way. Undo the vote, or change the vote to continue” when unfollowing posts. ...
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Error message “User has already voted this way. Undo the vote, or change the vote to continue” when undoing certain actions
There seems to be a bug where unfollowing posts, unaccepting an answer, and retracting (un)deletion votes gives this message:
User has already voted this way. Undo the vote, or change the vote to ...
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Received response clearly meant for someone else to a support ticket; what happened? [closed]
My profile was suspended on Math Stack Exchange for voting to close questions that lacked context and didn't show any attempt. Other users who also voted to close those questions were not suspended.
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Voting for comments from the review queues doesn't work
If you click on the up arrow next to a comment from the review queue, the page scrolls and the voting doesn't work (printscreen is from Stack Overflow in Russian, but I think, the language isn't ...
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How and when is voting fraud investigated? [duplicate]
As you all know, Up and Down voting questions on all Stack Exchange sites is a crucial part of network’s functionality, because it not only decides how correct or relevant questions and answers are, ...
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Should moderators override the community's "reopen" votes? [duplicate]
Currently, moderators can unilaterally close questions that the community voted to reopen, voting repeatedly even, which I've seen happen.
If moderators are elected by the community, should they ...
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Strange color change when clicking the vote button and holding the mouse
I upvoted a question today and saw than when clicking the upvote button, there was a strange color change to a blue color that seems to be consistent across all sites.
Example taken from Stack ...
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The vote button disappeared if I voted a question/answers without signing up [duplicate]
Today, I see this question on the TeX - LaTeX site. Command for Multiplying Integers
I want to upvote the answers.
I click the upvote.
Oops, I forgot I didn’t even sign up an account for that site.
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Vote Button :active state not reset after mouseDrag
The Vote button got some styling changes [1], which introduced a state where the ::active color does not reset, whereas the arrow stays white, becoming invisible on the white background.
Press (and ...
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Misleading banner: A retracted reopen vote means that you can't then vote to close the reopened question? [duplicate]
I found a strange bug the other day.
There was a poorly formatted/asked question, on a site1 (that I am not a moderator of), that I voted to close. It was closed eventually with another two votes (...
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Add an option to sort answers by the viewer's previously cast votes
Motivation: When I sort by highest score, what I really want is that by default, what other people found the most useful is at the top, because I'm in a mode where I want to find things that will be ...
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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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Why are you telling me to undo my vote when my vote is locked in?
When I hover over the upvote or downvote arrows on a post where I have voted, I see the following tooltip "this answer is useful (click again to undo)".
I never really noticed the phrase &...
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Allow high-reputation users or topic experts to "endorse" answers posted by other users
The problem
I am a Physics Stack user and I made a feature request that I was told would be a better fit for the mother meta site. I am a user who primarily answers way more than I ask.
In short, the ...
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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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Voting on 24 answers in one day and then voting on a question shows a dialog saying you have 5 votes left, although it's actually 6
If you vote on 24 answers during an SE network "day" on a site, then vote on a question, the following dialog comes up:
However, as indicated in the What are the limits on how I can cast, ...
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I am not able to figure out whether I voted or not and this is wasting my effort [duplicate]
I am not able to figure out whether I voted or not because of the colour of up and down buttons and this is wasting my effort because I do try to vote and then it tells me that I have already voted. ...
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Is it okay to make small edits to meta posts to change my vote?
If I see a meta answer that I voted on a long time ago, but I now have a different opinion on the topic and want to change my vote, is it okay to make a minor edit to the post so I can change my vote?
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Why can a >1K user not see up and down votes on deleted questions and answers accessible to them from the history of a review queue?
I was recently going through the history of my First Questions and Triage review queues to see how I am doing. I clicked on "Looks OK" of a deleted question which took me to the screen with ...
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Should you undo your vote after an answer was edited?
Let's say you upvote an answer because it answers the question and helps OP fix a problem. Within a couple of minutes of upvoting, this answer is edited slightly - not enough to change it completely ...
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