#It's not a pity-upvote but...
It's not a pity-upvote but...
If I see a question or answer has been down-voted and I don't see any egregious errors in it, I will up-vote to compensate for the unexplained down vote(s). I'll do this with posts I would not normally have up-voted but do so in compensation of unfair treatment. If there is a comment explaining the down-vote I won't up-vote but I may engage the comment author for clarification if it doesn't make sense.
#"Upvotes for the sake of voting are also discouraged"
"Upvotes for the sake of voting are also discouraged"
Thomas posted this in his answer and I beg to differ. From definition of badges we see:
##Electorate
Electorate
- gold; awarded once
- Vote on 600 questions
- Have at least 25% of your total number of votes cast (questions and answers) be on questions
- Comment votes do not count
This seems to be an especially confusing badge, so here are some examples to address cases commonly complained about on MSO. Total is just the total number of votes cast (Questions + Answers) and Ratio is the total number of votes cast that are on questions.
┌───────────┬─────────┬───────┬───────┬─────────────────────┐
│ Questions │ Answers │ Total │ Ratio │ Electorate awarded? │
├───────────┼─────────┼───────┼───────┼─────────────────────┤
│ 600 │ 2400 │ 3000 │ 20% │ No; ratio too low │
│ 201 │ 401 │ 602 │ ~33% │ No; < 600 questions │
│ 599 │ 0 │ 599 │ 100% │ No; < 600 questions │
│ 600 │ 0 │ 600 │ 100% │ Yes │
│ 500 │ 500 │ 1000 │ 50% │ No; < 600 questions │
│ 650 │ 650 │ 1300 │ 50% │ Yes │
└───────────┴─────────┴───────┴───────┴─────────────────────┘
I received this badge when my rep points were low. As there was a limit on the number of allowed votes per day I think it took about a month.
So you can see up-votes are encouraged.
