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Does the original poster know when I downvote their posts?

The system is self healing. People who exhibit that behavior will get bored and crushed by downvotes... or some other infraction will strip them of their account. Don't take a downvote so seriou …
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Why is there a badge for down voting?

The only thing I'ld add is that downvoting is arguably even MORE important than upvoting in the answer sorting process. There's also a badge for retracting a negatively received post/answer. …
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Why are people downvoting questions with obvious solutions?

First one: subjective question low quality down-vote is understandable Second one: lacks details needed to give a real answer low quality down-vote is understandable Third one I don't understand th …
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3 votes

Some closed questions should not be downvoted, just closed. Thoughts?

Sometimes we should based on our better judgement down vote closed questions to work around delete votes. This would exclude duplicates so we could use them as signs to help SEO.
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Can anybody please explain to me why this question got downvoted?

I don't know why it was downvoted, but I can tell you the first Google result for boot uec cloud image kvm is pretty thorough and resolves your issue. By the way, the link is the Ubuntu wiki...
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-1 votes

Some closed questions should not be downvoted, just closed. Thoughts?

No we should almost never down vote closed questions. Delete votes exist for a reason.
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Some closed questions should not be downvoted, just closed. Thoughts?

Yes we should carte-blanche down vote closed questions to work around delete votes.