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What's the point of voting on questions (especially downvoting)?
Downvoting is, as pomsky says, a quality-control mechanism. … There's a reason why downvoting questions is free (downvoting answers costs 1 rep): stem the tide of bad questions, and the number of bad answers that you then have to clean up automatically go down. …
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Should we be concerned with prolific downvoters?
I don't know about this specific user, but in general, yes:
We should be thankful for users who spend time downvoting. …
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Why is there a badge for down voting?
There are badges for all other major moderation tasks (flagging, editing, upvoting, deleting, reviewing), why should downvoting be exempt? … Whatever you may think of it, downvoting is an important part of Stack Exchange. …
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Is this question inappropriate for the StackOverflow Q&A format?
I don't think this question can be improved into being a good fit for Stack Exchange sites in general. It is, of course, both reasonable and answerable, but that is not enough. All you ask is a reason …
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Why can you not downvote comments?
See extensive discussion on Meta SE. Quoting the Jon Skeet:
If a comment is wrong, respond to it with another comment. That provides a lot more information than a downvote which could mean anythin …
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