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##Up voting

###It is better to share than to receive

##Down voting

##Keep voting!

###No one should care that much for reputation anyway

Up voting

It is better to share than to receive

Down voting

Keep voting!

No one should care that much for reputation anyway

Ask Ubuntu, as any other site in the Stack Exchange sites network, works with the help of a rating system. Sometimes its hard for people to understand the importance of a single vote but votes are the base for the site and in truth what makes it work.

Up and down voting has huge consequences on they way people view posts, it sorts users and improve the overall quality of the site. We should all be supplying votes as a first triage method for posts and that helps out the site sort out questions and helps editors focus more in great content or to transform really bad posts in to acceptable ones.

What I am looking for are the community's viewpoint on the above

These questions are all over, if you look at the front page mainly 40% will fall in to any of these categories.

At the moment Ask Ubuntu is going thru a massive clean up effort that is working brilliantly, I cannot say more thanks to all users involved and praise the involvement of the site's moderators on that, but we can do it better and we can start earlier.

A bad question that is not fixed or updated by the user that gets down voted will vanish from the site after some time and from what I can see in the flagged questions on the moderators queue you see a lot of questions that if simply down voted a long time ago would not be there in the first place.

Start cleaning now, if it cannot be edited and fixed within reasonable parameters, if it does not belong here, if it shows low effort to create or no effort to supply information, if its very confusing in a way that you cannot figure out what is being asked or what the user wants, down vote it.

Don't get me wrong, I am not saying I agree with revenge or competition down voting, that is just silly and will get you in to trouble sooner than latter.

It is important and easy to do so. What ever you read on the site, rank it!

###No one should care that much for reputation anyways

Reputation gives you privileges around the site. It shows how much you are trusted. That is all. Does not make you a better person, does not make you less or more important. If your name is on a list and the person right bellow you gave a good answer the fact that if you up vote that content from him will make you drop a place should never be the reason not to vote!

Don't worry about giving reputation away, worry about your content, other people's content and keep up voting good content, it will come back, be patient, this is not a race.

Ask Ubuntu, as any other site in the Stack Exchange sites network, works with the help of a rating system. Sometimes it's hard for people to understand the importance of a single vote but votes are the base for the site and in truth what makes it work.

Up and down voting has huge consequences on they way people view posts, it sorts users and improve the overall quality of the site. We should all be supplying votes as a first triage method for posts and that helps out the site sort out questions and helps editors focus more in great content or to transform really bad posts into acceptable ones.

What I am looking for are the community's viewpoints on the above

These questions are all over, if you look at the front page mainly 40% will fall into any of these categories.

At the moment Ask Ubuntu is going thru a massive cleanup effort that is working brilliantly, I cannot say more thanks to all users involved and praise the involvement of the site's moderators on that, but we can do it better and we can start earlier.

A bad question that is not fixed or updated by the user that gets downvoted will vanish from the site after some time and from what I can see in the flagged questions on the moderators' queue you see a lot of questions that if simply down voted a long time ago would not be there in the first place.

Start cleaning now, if it cannot be edited and fixed within reasonable parameters, if it does not belong here, if it shows low effort to create or no effort to supply information, if it's very confusing in a way that you cannot figure out what is being asked or what the user wants, downvote it.

Don't get me wrong, I am not saying I agree with revenge or competition down voting, that is just silly and will get you into trouble sooner than later.

It is important and easy to do so. Whatever you read on the site, rank it!

###No one should care that much for reputation anyway

Reputation gives you privileges around the site. It shows how much you are trusted. That is all. Does not make you a better person, does not make you less or more important. If your name is on a list and the person right below you gave a good answer the fact that if you upvote that content from him will make you drop a place should never be the reason not to vote!

Don't worry about giving reputation away, worry about your content, other people's content and keep upvoting good content, it will come back, be patient, this is not a race.