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It depends. If sorting by vote then answers on the same vote score are sorted randomly. If sorting by activity then answers with the most recent changes are displayed first. If sorting by oldest th …

Too many votes will: a) Trigger the vote fraud mechanisms - particularly if they are over a short period of time. b) Be flagged as potential sock puppetry. This is less likely if you don't share IP …

It's the total of up-votes you have given. If you've down-voted that'll appear as a separate subtotal.

Yes - just click on the down-vote arrow again. As long as you're inside the vote window or the post has been edited your down-vote will be removed. You'll even get your 1 point of rep back. The same …

I can think of a couple of cases: The users who provided those two up-votes are destroyed - all posts are deleted and all votes removed. The users were sock puppets of another user that also voted f …

The points are lost. The up-votes still count towards badges though (subject area badges, nice question/answer etc.). If some of the votes you did receive are rescinded for some reason (voter fraud, …

Don't forget the data explorer data is approximately a month old. If the posts you down-voted have been deleted since the last data dump then they won't appear on your profile, but will still be in t …

Basically it's because it's a simple answer. It's an example of Parkinson's Law of Triviality which states that organisations give disproportionate weight to trivial issues. What this means in this …

There is nothing intrinsically wrong with up- (or indeed down-) voting several answers from one person sequentially over a short period of time, however, it's one of the "vote fraud "behaviours that i …

The system already reminds you to vote on questions (or answers) if most of your votes have been on answers (or questions). It doesn't tell you which way to vote, but just says something along the lin …

I treat favourite as a bookmark - which has nothing to do with whether I think the question is any good or not. This behaviour been noted elsewhere on meta - but I can't find the question again. Act …

A lot of this has been covered in answers/comments to these questions: Encouraging people to explain downvotes https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2263/require-comments-on-downvotes (10K only) …

The Area 51 discussion site is Area 51's "meta" site. So you inherit your reputation from the main site (Area 51) and votes there don't affect your score. So, apart from the different names, reputati …

It's a). Badge totals aren't recalculated, so if you lose one (question migration, question deletion, down-votes etc.) your total doesn't go down. Then the next one you win brings the total back to w …

You can already sort by "oldest" (note however that "newest" has been replaced by "active"): But if you mean when sorting by votes answers on equal votes are sorted randomly.