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What are the basic principles for using the vote functions?
And about voting - just because something is duplicate does not mean it is neccessarily a bad question question (nor a great one). … There are three voting states:
+1, Yeah it's great!
-1, It's rubbish!
±0, Meh. …
OliMod
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I observed that my reputation decreases when I downvote answers, why?
Voting against questions is free (there's no chance of personal gain).
A vote down is a lot stronger than voting up. …
OliMod
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Is it a good or a bad sign that I get the "notable question" badge for a zero-votes question?
And dealing with the networking aspects of X is probably considered specialist and that probably puts people off opening it, let alone voting for it.
People also have different reasons for voting up. …
OliMod
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Why is 1000 rep needed to view vote count?
A lot of the non-essential functionality is withheld from lower-point users to act as an incentive for using the system more. It's essentially an RPG. If you play enough, you get cool little additions …
OliMod
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What do you do about unexplained downvotes?
Just voting against them does nothing and it's sucky communication. The poster needs to be told what to do to fix the problem.
"My votes should be anonymous, G-Man!" … If we were voting for anything worthwhile, I might agree but I'd laugh in the face of anybody who said that sincerely here. This is tech support, not the UN. …
OliMod
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What is considered a community consensus on Meta?
To answer both questions with one blithe statement: I don't think we do.
Now, that might not be the most useful answer to your question, but I'm speaking as one of the people tasked with attempting t …
OliMod
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Isn't the first step to post a comment rather than vote to close?
I agree with your concern — we should engage with people more before closing things — but I think put in the position to close this question, I might followed suit and might have pulled the trigger wi …
OliMod
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Are we being too generous to (incorrect) answers?
Yeah some things look right (so attract votes for effort) but are technically incorrect. It happens to anybody who answers enough on the site.
There are things you can do that are genuinely useful:
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OliMod
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Why is this question about the solar eclipse so heavily downvoted?
I deleted this. The OP requested it but that's where I was going anyway.
The question is nonsense. No hypothesis, no suggestion, no correlation, not even a citation of what they'd actually heard, and …
OliMod
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Let's NOT participate in the one-rep voting experiment
And that's just not good enough for something as opaque as voting. Even moderators would struggle to identify subtle semi-anonymous voting patterns. …
OliMod
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