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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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When voting an answer down, is it polite to add a comment giving a reason?

Yes please. I've gotten a couple of downvotes that I'm still a little confused by, and I'd have loved a few words of explanation (I'm not saying the downvote was unjustified, I just didn't know why i …
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