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I can only assume that when building StackExchange, the developers simply used the word "vote" (rather than "upvote" or "downvote") so that the code behind the popup could be reused for both upvote and … downvote popups - if this was the case, it wouldn't be considered a bug (see Gartner's definition of "bug"). …

When I attempt to downvote a an answer on AskUbuntu, I get the message: "You need at least 125 reputation to cast a vote..." (screen capture below). This is in error. …

In general, though I agree "don't do it" answers technically don't answer the question, I personally: Let them be Upvote them if they're useful / agreeable Downvote them if they're unuseful / disagreeable …

It's interesting to note that, among the most heavily downvoted questions, most of them have heavily upvoted answers. … Hiding posts that get quickly downvoted reduces the amount of time that the community has to see the answers as well as the questions. …

Some numbers: There are (at present) 5,857 questions on Meta AU. Of these, 68 questions have a score of -8 or less. So, historically, ~1.16% of posts would have been affected by this change. At the m …

Do we not need to be notified, when visiting Meta, that, say, taking edits that address grammar personally shouldn't be a thing because the relative question has been downvoted more than 8 times? … And, in general, are we allowed to further upvote a post that has 8 upvotes but not to further downvote a post that has 8 downvotes? …

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 t …

Each downvote a post ends up with, deducts 2 points of reputation from the author of the post. …

Unless you're talking about your reputation page in which case every downvote you receive is a -2 hit to your reputation. THAT is different from the vote count. …

It is about this post How come Gnome developers consider Ubuntu 22.04 too old to take up bug reports regarding it?, it shows -1 I wonder why and why in my setting it shows -2?

He didn't even downvote my post, maybe to make me not aware of his intervention. …

First a few words on how the reopening mechanism works. You can read more in the relevant Help Center article: What if I disagree with the closure of a question? How can I reopen it? A closed question …

the first post and did a new one, a lot more summarized, because I think it is better like that: dnsmasq configuration for TFTP + ProxyDHCP in Ubuntu Server 22.04.3 LTS Some minutes later, I received a downvote …

It's OK to downvote a bad question, but it would also be a nice and recommended gesture to leave a comment explaining what could be improved. …

Many are little more than "X doesn't work, please help" and deserve a downvote. … Anyway, my question is: has policy on downvoting changed and/or is it OK to downvote a bad question without leaving a comment? …