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Serial downvote: how to make it stop? Tired of having my questions deleted
For the second time on askubuntu.com, I got serial downvoted.
The user who downvotes targets questions with no upvote and no answer so that after the downvote the question will automatically deleted....
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What is your consideration when downvoting, what are your criteria?
At the risk of being burned down, have to get this off my chest.
Be sure it is not meant as an average "ouch, they downvoted me" rant; it bothers me when it happens to others as much as it ...
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Are we being too generous to (incorrect) answers?
For quite sometime now, I am seeing a very alarming trend here. Wrong/incorrect answers are being upvoted, quite a lot.
I have seen some answers lately, that deserve downvotes without any doubt, but ...
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Is it acceptable to threaten users with downvotes?
See this question: https://askubuntu.com/questions/163613/offline-installation/: top answer, third comment. I told the commenter that it's better to correct the answer himself than to threaten others ...
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Does the original poster know when I downvote their posts?
Some of my answers got down voted just because I down voted an answer of some other user or an user suspects me to be probable down voter as I left a comment on his/her down voted post.
Usually my ...
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Down voting consequences
I really understand that down voting should not be as easy as voting up over a good question/answer but the loss of rep associated with it makes it really something to avoid by a lot of users. I am ...
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Is it appropriate to downvote an answer to a question which I have also answered?
I have a specific question in mind and will provide it if needed but I'm asking in general for now.
In any case, a downvote should be accompanied by a suitable comment so should I just comment and not ...
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Why are people downvoting questions with obvious solutions?
There is something I have seen in both stackoverflow and askubuntu. That is happening way more at stackoverflow but even at AskUbuntu.
There are questions with minus ratings and negative votes (for ...
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Should we be concerned with prolific downvoters?
I've recently come across a few questions with downvotes that seemed a bit harsh; I accept everyone has a different view and it's fine to accommodate differences of opinion in a community.
I got the ...
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Downvotes for answering own questions?
Someone downvoted three of my answers to own questions in a row.
These are the answers:
https://askubuntu.com/a/757829/428857
https://askubuntu.com/a/854620/428857
https://askubuntu.com/a/791221/...
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Flag a Down Vote
I came across a question this evening which I thought was unfairly down voted. I instinctively up voted to counter the down vote, however this might not have been the correct way of handling this ...
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Poorly Written Questions - Is it okay to downvote?
I have seen a lot of questions where people do not bother to spell check or capitalize their I's, and leave beginnings of sentences uncapitalized. I have seen posts that use texting abbreviations, etc....
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Should we downvote duplicate questions?
I have been around for a few months now. What I notice is that the same questions keep on being asked over and over again. For instance about what ubuntu version to use, problems to install, questions ...
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Is it a good idea to downvote answers by new users?
Earlier I asked What's the point of voting on questions (especially downvoting)?. From this question, I understand that down-voting (questions at least) seems to be for general house keeping among ...
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Should I downvote a good answer if there is a competing better answer?
Suppose someone asks a question. It has two solutions - one is easier than the other, but the other one has some benefits of its own.
For example, there was one question about imagemagick where the ...
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I am being downvoted for no reason
Can a moderator explain what's happening to my account. I am not sad but I wish to know why I am so downvoted today?
EDIT:
Problem solved next 2 days
I have my points back
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Can you lose the right to ask a question?
I have a really random question. When somebody starts using Ask Ubuntu, they start with 1 reputation. According to the "privileges" page, you must have at least 1 reputation to create a post. If, for ...
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What to do when your answer gets down voted?
What should I do when my answer is being down voted? Should I delete it? Because if I leave it, more users will just down vote it, which costs reputation. But if I delete it any (possibly limited) ...
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Is it ok to announce downvoting in a comment which requests clarification if the user comments instead of editing?
Assume I request clarification in a comment on a question in the form of I see contradiction in the question in argument 1 and 2. Please edit!. Then, most users write a comment in reply without ...
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Why do I not lose reputation when downvoting a question?
I understand why you lose reputation when downvoting an answer, but why not the same when you downvote a question? What is the thinking behind this?
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Should an answer be downvoted if it is outdated and at the top of the page
I feel like this answer should be downvoted because it is at the top of the page and outdated. However I'm not sure whether or not that is the best idea. Is there a better solution to this problem? Or ...
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Max number of downvotes
I would like to know if there is a maximum number of downvotes a question can receive, or if once downvotes hit a certain number further downvotes are blocked.
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Some closed questions should not be downvoted, just closed. Thoughts?
There are some questions that are not deserving a downvote considering the circumstances, such as when the OP is obviously not accustomed to using the the site and thinks that it is pretty much a ...
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Why is my answer being downvoted?
I've posted an answer that I think that is as valid (or more) than it's companions. It was downvoted 2 times and up voted zero times. Why is happening this?
Link: https://askubuntu.com/a/609136/...
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Why is my question downvoted?
My question Why is OpenJDK not preinstalled was downvoted 2 times.
What's wrong with it?
Or is it just that people think preinstalling it is a stupid idea?
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What's the point of voting on questions (especially downvoting)?
I am curious as to the mentality behind upvoting/downvoting questions...
I can understand the logic behind upvoting/downvoting answers "ok if an answer is bad then downvote it" sure this ...
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Why can you not downvote comments?
You can up and downvote posts, but why can you only upvote comments? What is the thinking for not allow any sort of downvote on comments (not that I am saying that you should lose or gain rep from ...
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Downvote on a closed question causes decrease in asker's reputation? Is this new?
I had opened a question in Ask Ubuntu when I started using the site, without knowing much.
That question got closed as off topic. Here it is: https://askubuntu.com/q/99028/35775
Today I noticed that ...
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About a post in AskUbuntu that received a downvote
Yesterday I posted in Ask Ubuntu a question about dnsmasq, and it was a large post with all important details, what I have tried already, the error messages, and it became really long - more than I ...
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Is it proper to downvote a question that describes a bug?
After a research, and finding no solution to the problem I faced on my Ubuntu machine, I made and posted a detailed question to Ask Ubuntu. To my surprise, what I have is a bug (not sure if known or ...
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Why is this question about the solar eclipse so heavily downvoted?
I am talking about Will the Great American Eclipse Crash Ubuntu here.
Just in case, here is its content:
Wondering if my computer will crash because of the Eclipse? Anything I need to do to ...
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Bullying as a strategy to force close a question
This question - How to install bully and mdk3 on ubuntu 16.04 - has received at the time this was posted four downvotes as well as three close votes for being unclear, however there is nothing unclear ...
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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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Is this question inappropriate for the StackOverflow Q&A format?
I asked a question earlier today (Why isn't there a 64-bit binary for Skype?) and immediately received a number of downvotes (with only 9 views the question had 3 downvotes).
I've since edited the ...
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Is it good style to downvote developers who announce their projects?
Sometimes we see developers who use Ask Ubuntu as a platform to annouce their projects. I feel this is a good idea, especially when a project does address an unsolved issue many people have. For ...
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What do you call it when four good answers are down-voted in the same question?
On this question: Why can't I cd to a quoted tilde ('~')?
I noticed this morning that four out of the six answers were all down voted for no apparent reason. They were all good in their ...
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-1 reputation for nothing
Ok I am wondering why and how I can remove negative reps on ask ubuntu. I know how to search for questions and answers before I ask. Then someone comes along and gives me a down vote because they ...
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Many users just voting down, even when answerers follow up?
I've been answering questions lately, and been giving responses as much as I can. I usually provide links to websites where the question asker can get more information, and reference where I get my ...
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Can anybody please explain to me why this question got downvoted?
https://askubuntu.com/questions/450726/unable-to-boot-ubuntu-cloud-guest-image-in-kvm
The person who downvoted did not provide any explanation for the downvote.
All it says on the downvote is: "This ...
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Answer got downvoted but user removed the question
So I answered a question about a Internet connection problem where the connection worked but there was no Internet. Naturally I suggested to check the DNS settings and I got my answer downvoted.. A ...
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Opinions on downvoting duplicate questions
I have interacted with a few new user recently who are very disgruntled due to getting a lot of down-votes on there questions for been duplicates.
I don't down-vote these myself but I can vote to ...
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Want to up-vote someone i down-voted him for bad reasons?
I am sorry, i don't even know if this is the right place to ask the question,
but i down-voted someone for revenge as i think that he down-voted me because i rejected his edit to one of my questions ...
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Under what circumstances do close-votes generate downvotes, if any?
I'm asking in relation to this question... but I think this could be a good general purpose answer.
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Are we making Ask Ubuntu to uninviting to new users
Whilst down-voting is encouraged for sloppy, no effort, questions. Or answers that are bad or clearly incorrect. I have noticed a growing trend of down votes on first question/posts in the review ...
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What to do when posts are voted down for no reason?
It's really annoying, a user asked this question:
I am wondering what the point of sh being symbolic linked to dash is? I understand that dash is supposed to be faster than bash, but I am uncertain ...
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How to pragmatically deal with down-votes on a good question when you are the author of the questions?
Recently someone down-voted a question I posted on Ask Ubuntu which was a very good question. I do not give a damn but is it alright to sit and see the down-vote on a good question or is there a way ...
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Could we modify the pop-up of the downvote icon of questions?
Reading the answers and comments that I got on this question "Could we add a delay before being able to downvote a question?"
I changed my mind:
An answer needs to be upvoted or downvoted, it is ...
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Was I wrong to down vote this answer?
I down voted and answer on this question, you can read the comments as too why.
This user proceeded to trawl through my history and try to find ways to get me to change my vote based on another ...
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Why does voting down decrement Reputation
if an answer is wrong , then we can vote it and the wrong answer goes down the list,but why decrementing the hard-earned reputation??
we need to bring a change to that policy.
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ancient down-voting and modern Linux-society ;o)
To clarify my question - this following ( please take my opinion more with humour not with deadly seriousity ) :
Being "down-voted" is somehow ancient and leads into direction like being "pilloried".
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