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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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Does the network currently promote "shows no effort" as a good reason to downvote a post?

(note: for sake of correctness, it is worth noticing that balpha was specifically talking about SO in that context—see his mentions about the SO FAQ page) Later the voting tooltips were changed. …
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If more users could vote, would they engage more? Testing 1 reputation voting on some sites

To put this into context: I am very opposed to setting a 1 rep threshold for up and down voting because these have an implication across the network. … Thomas Owens, GenAI One major concern that I (and likely others) share is that this may (and likely will) lead to voting rings and (rule breaking) sockpuppet accounts. …
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When someone ask how to behave in a situation, do we vote for the general problem or the spe...

Meta often receives a lot of questions about "How should I behave when ....". Often those questions are just made by user asking how their own specific case should be handled, but many times those ins …
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Is there a canonical "vote for the content, not the user" post on SE?

Then there is this one from Tim Post We typically just have to remind them that voting their way through another user's history is bad because they're focusing on an individual, not just content and quality …
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Downvoted but accepted and possibly good answer, how to alert future readers?

This should cover up users from getting hit by massive arbitrary voting (up or down it doesn't mater - don't focus your view just on downvotes. Serial upvote is a thing, too). … Stack Exchange whole visibility system is centered on people voting based on quality. …
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