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What are the most upvoted/downvoted questions and answers on the sites?
Official FAQ on gender pronouns and Code of Conduct changes was one of the most downvoted questions on the whole site, sitting at -1285 5 days after posting. OP has gone from 1924 to currently 342 ...
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Are questions by veteran users better received than questions by new users?
Yes; questions by users which are newly registered (less than one month) are less well received than questions asked by users who have more experience on the site. This could be research by Captain ...
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Use "score" instead of "votes" in the list of questions
This has been a long time coming, and we're not quite done yet! However I'd like to update you folks that we've just pushed some changes to wording all around the website regarding "votes".
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What is the point of showing publicy a new user's question vote count more than -1?
A question being at -1 means one person thought it was a bad question. a question being at -8 means eight people felt it was a bad question. That's a relevant difference. It tells you a lot about ...
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What is the highest score a question can have?
As stated there isn't a bottom limit, but the layout breaks at 10 digits:
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What is the highest score a question can have?
As big as the data type can take (look at the second point for the meme) :)
i.e. This is basically infinity. There's no limit to how many up or down votes a question can take.
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How can I see the average and median question scores for a given tag on a given SE site?
The median is easy to find. Go to a tag and sort by score. The median will be on the middle page, so approximately page 743 for bug questions with the default 15 questions per page, which shows the ...
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Tag badge on zero score accepted answer
Yes, that is correct. Your score in a tag is calculated as the total number of upvotes minus the total number of downvotes on answers (not questions) to questions having that tag. Whether an answer is ...
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Downvoting Of questioning or answering
Okay. I've tried my best to piece together how you've arrived at this question, and this is what I think happened:
You were tagged / mentioned in a Quora post as being a member of one or more Stack ...
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Should answer scores decay? Discussion on making answer rankings for older questions more dynamic
I see a few downsides. Maybe they're not something that can't be overcome, but they are things that should be kept in mind when decaying votes in my opinion. But at the moment I don't see a way to fix ...
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Obtaining the distribution of upvotes on questions for specific Stack Exchange sites
You can do this easily with a SEDE query - this one uses the score of a question instead of upvotes only, as I think that's what you're looking for.
For reference, here is the query. Please note that ...
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Which negatively voted question has the most answers?
I believe this query to do that:
-- result table, don't rename and keep the site column
create table #results ( site nvarchar(250)
, title nvarchar(250)
,...
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What are the most upvoted/downvoted questions and answers on the sites?
The top upvoted questions on SO:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions?sort=votes
The top view questions on SO:
https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=views%3A250
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Can we start indicating that there is an accepted answer at the start of the Answers section on a question?
A suggestion from V2Blast in the comments sugested:
some easy way to navigate from the question to the accepted answer (e.g. something like "This user has accepted an answer. Click here to jump ...
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Can we exempt negatively-scored accepted answers from getting the top spot?
I have a small remark on the stats shown in the accepted answer. If you check them today you can see that the questions with a lower scoring accepted answer are also the better viewed answers.
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How do I determine the score of my questions?
A negative score means the number of downvotes is higher than the number of upvotes. You see the vote count (score) next to your question. Or in your questions profile page.
You can easily search for ...
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Disqualify a question from Hot Network Questions if it has more answers than net votes
I wonder if that 'hotness' mechanism is that good after all. At the moment of writing I am presented this question as hot question. In my opinion it's definitely not hot. It has 1 upvote and 1 answer ...
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Answers in top Network Posts showing incorrect score
Confirmation: I'm seeing multiple instances of the same off-by-one problem:
User Nog Shine on meta.SE
54 Was Mjolnir ever used for building something? (actually 53)
User Lun on Ukrainian Language ...
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What was the original intention for automatically deleting old, unanswered questions with +1 score and a deleted owner?
Not the official source, but it seems to me like this criterion was added as a result of Jeff going through lots of queries and sorting out potential criteria for "noise" unanswered questions, and ...
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Top Network Posts showing incorrect score
Somehow the database stored the incorrect information for this post, thinking it had a score of 14 instead of 15, which is odd since both locations are fed from the same source, so they should have ...
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Add an explanatory tooltip to the question's score and number of stars
It seems this indeed isn't implemented yet. If you don't have enough reputation to see votes, you won't see the tooltip either. There is just none defined.
I agree this would be useful to other users,...
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Can we exempt negatively-scored accepted answers from getting the top spot?
As of September 2021, on Stack Overflow, accepted answers are no longer pinned to the top, regardless of score. The team is currently mulling disabling accepted answer pinning on more (possibly all) ...
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Correlation between the score and the answer
You are right, it's quite common for answers to have very different scores than their questions. I suspect you're running into a little confirmation bias and mostly seeing the case where the answers ...
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Distinguish zero score answers with upvotes
Whichever way you look at it, posts with a score of 0 need looking at again.
Answers with no votes at all have either been completely overlooked or are so mediocre that no one bothered to pay them ...
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Number of answers as tie breaker for top answerers in tag
Since Stack Exchange sites advocate quality as being what distinguishes its Q&A from that of other platforms I think they should rank a user with the same score from fewer questions more highly if ...
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Should answer scores decay? Discussion on making answer rankings for older questions more dynamic
There are several issues with this proposal
Not all answers age equally
Not all answers are in high traffic tags (this is especially visible on Stack Overflow where differences between tags are huge)
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What counts towards the score?
From the glossary, the score means:
When referring to a post (question or answer) it means the total
amount of upvotes, minus total number of downvotes. For example answer
with 8 upvotes and 3 ...
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Query to show the highest voted post in each tag
I think this SEDE query I just wrote does the job.
For reference, here is the complete query:
SELECT TagName, QuestionID AS [Post Link], q_.Score AS [Q score],
AnswerID AS [Post Link], a_.Score AS [...
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What are the most upvoted/downvoted questions and answers on the sites?
This question on Meta StackOverflow has -2064 downvotes; and rightfully so. I really hope they keep developer story :(
Edit:
Just noticed that the links on other answers on this question aren't ...
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Only top scored, non community-wiki answers of a minimum length are eligible