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Please don't just vote posts up because you feel sorry for them getting voted down

This is one of the things I hate most on SE, people who think downvoting is mean and we should not do it voting to cancel out downvotes, it wastes my vote, your vote, gives to OP rep for a bad post. … I never ever heard of someone, voting to eliminate a downvote however. I doubt it happens, and even if it does, it won't be more then occasionally. …
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What is considered a community consensus on Meta?

Good question A few thoughts & observations I made over the years: Voting on Meta questions and answers is often not done on strictly rational grounds. … Two posts, in fact saying the same, can have opposite voting. Even in a time span of a few days. …
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