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This hurts the site because they're usually incomplete, and more importantly, the community can't downvote them or edit them so we have to flag them, which takes up precious moderator time when they have …

DV - Downvote, or possibly Delete vote. …

I don't think it will be useful, there's no way to tell if an unofficial derivative has the same setup/versions/packages as an official Ubuntu release, it will just lead to confusion. Those questions …

You can downvote for asking a poor, unclear, or not-useful question, but downvoting for asking in the wrong place isn't necessary. …

This is for all more or less new users that posted questions here and searched for help, but got much negative feedback from the community in form of downvotes and closing their questions. I want to …

DO NOT modify it, except to vote on it, and please do not downvote it if you disagree with the statement - upvote the other vote option instead. Yes, I support the proposed changes to policy. …

If he refuses to do higher quality posts, either because he doesn't know how, or is physically incapable of it - just continue to downvote him or delete-vote his posts, or flag his posts as "not an answer …

Instead, either fix it yourself or, if that's not an option, downvote it. … Spam posts should not be downvoted since that will eventually remove them from the front page and this might prevent enough spam flags being cast to trigger the post's deletion. …

For the second time on askubuntu.com, I got serial downvoted. … I raised a flag each time a serial downvote happened, but it didn't help. How to make it stop? …

Questions are downvoted on a regular basis, there's typically a best practice where we recommend those who do downvote to comment on a reason why. … Having questions downvoted for seemingly no reason is a common "issue" on this site. …

Downvote and comment... Does the answer miss the point of the question? Flag as NAA. PS: The Skip button is your friend. PPS: By no means is this an exhaustive list. …

I'm now talking about: Problem using any docks (Cairo, AWN, Docky) These can be downvoted, but what if the question or answer is useful? It could be closed, should the reason be "too localized"? …

But there haven't been much increase on downvoted questions. I think votes should be used to quickly sort good content to the top and bad content to the bottom. … Maybe we shouldn't be so averse to the downvote button. Now that I have established all of that, what we can do about the unanswered questions? Should we be concerned yet? …

Let me preface this with a run-down of the reputation system: Users on the site can cast up- and downvotes and accept answers on their questions, each giving or taking reputation to or from other use …

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 … 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 …