Questions tagged [downvoting]
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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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Has policy on downvotes changed?
I have been an on-and-off user of AskUbuntu for 10 years. Coming back this year I notice that the majority of questions on the front page have a -1, often already within the hour after they are asked....
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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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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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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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Isn't it weird that you type upgrades and get updates?
Isn't it weird that you type upgrades and get updates?
Why did this question: Is there a command to find updatable packages? get negative votes?
As I explained in the comment. The problem is here ، It ...
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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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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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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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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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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 is there a badge for down voting?
I found some humor in that I can get a badge for down voting someone.
I try to look at the positive things in life.
It's a waste of energy looking for the negative.
I'm sure someone will down vote ...
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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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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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I believe I have been downvoted because I downvoted answers which I thought were poor
My question was:
Roguelike platformers available on ubuntu?
Are there any rogue-like >side scrolling platformers< available on ubuntu?
I downvoted both answers, because they did not in my opinion,...
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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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Why am I getting +1 points?
I've had a few times now where I get +1 for my points. But when I look at my rep history, nothing shows up. What I did notice however is that some of my downvotes seem to have disappeared. I have ...
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Why minus 500 a few days ago [duplicate]
Many of my posts had -10 and -20 all on one day.
Did I upset someone?
I do not see how all those could get downvotes all in one day.
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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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Why have two of my questions and their answers had a series of unupvotes? [duplicate]
Yesterday all my answers to two questions I posted had many votes "unupvoted", including one question.
My reputation history and the two questions:
ASCII screensaver for the command-line or a TUI?
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Users under 500 rep need to leave a comment as to why they downvoted? [duplicate]
I'm sure many users have experienced the dreaded "Downvote with no explanation."
This causes many problems, such as unexplained loss of reputation, lack of knowledge of how to improve a post (which ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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How to understand a downvote
Is there any way to understand who or at least why a downvote was awarded?
Because in 2 cases that I got a downvote, the answer seemed perfectly fine and also had upvotes from other users.
The only ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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