Questions tagged [down-votes]
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Do we want heavily-downvoted questions to appear on the Meta AU homepage?
MSE was changed so all posts with score exceeding -9999 would show on the home page (formerly, the minimum score to appear on the home page was -8). Per-site Metas were given the option to opt-in to ...
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If I'm getting downvotes for an answer is it good idea to delete it?
The answer in question is this
I'm getting downvotes on that answer for some reason that I can't see (or maybe don't understand yet). A downvoted answer represents a poorly written answer or answer ...
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I need guidance for downvoted question without feedback
I recently posted a question titled Slow Simulated Typing Speed in Ubuntu When Using Nonprintable Characters on Ask Ubuntu. The question was about an issue I’ve encountered in Ubuntu related to the ...
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Can people please leave comments when they downvote questions and answers [duplicate]
This is more of a request than a question, but if people down vote questions or answers could you please leave a comment in the appropriate place.
The point of the voting system is so good q/a can be ...
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Purpose of downvote on non-questions
As we all know, downvote is supposed to express that question is not useful. But not all posts that we have here are questions ; hence the question: what do downvotes do to a non-question ? What is ...
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When exactly does a downvote cost 1 reputaion?
I was trying to find the correlation between downvoting and losing 1 rep for the downvote.
If I understood correctly downvoting a post with a score ≥ 0 always takes away 1 reputation from me.
But ...
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Can I downvote answers for a duplicate question?
On stackoverflow, in my days at least, not active anymore, there was a rule which forbids answering duplicate questions (and most low quality or spam questions). Answering such questions is a try to ...
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Why no extra downvote with spam flag any more? [closed]
When I flag an answer as spam, it simply flags it up and doesn't add an extra downvote, previously though I would downvote the question/answer, and then upon the spam flag the system would give it ...
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Down votes without comments [duplicate]
I’m not personally a great fan of the concept of down-votes, but I know people want to express a view and I understand they play a useful role. For me, the upvotes say enough and dreadful posts can be ...
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feature request : Reasons for down-votes [duplicate]
I think it is really important to know the reasons for getting down-votes.
Feature Description:
The users must be asked for providing a valid reason for downvoting a post which already has 5 or more ...
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Should edits get some rep for upvotes?
I was wondering, why shouldn't edits get a small bit of rep for an upvote? (Like 1 rep for upvoted question 2 for upvoted answer) Because I answered pretty badly, but someone (fabby) edited it and it ...
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