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Downvotes for answering own questions?
What Zanna said is 100% correct and self answers are encouraged but the down votes have nothing to do with self answers, as the questions were voted up.
Let's look at your answers
Dell Inspiron does ...
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Downvotes for answering own questions?
Thanks for posting the solutions you found to your own problems. This is a great thing to do and the site has some ways of encouraging it - for example, this little message next to the checkbox to ...
ZannaMod
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Should we be concerned with prolific downvoters?
You may very well be right about this specific user, but if I can just put in my two pennies worth, I think concluding only from the raw number(s) is a bit risky.
If you go and check my profile right ...
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Why is there a badge for down voting?
Why shouldn't there be? 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, ...
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Max number of downvotes
There is effectively no hard limit, but it's probably not useful to have one.
The system does not attempt to impose any particular limit on how low a post's score can go. It probably cannot go lower ...
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Is it a good idea to downvote answers by new users?
Typically, I prefer using comments as well. Voting up/down sort of sends the wrong message to new users, even though as Zanna explained it is not intended to be a form of punishment/reward, but people ...
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Is it a good idea to downvote answers by new users?
Voting is really important on Stack Exchange sites and its purpose is often misunderstood. The purpose of voting is not
to reward users with unicorn dollars1
to punish users by taking their unicorn ...
ZannaMod
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Why is there a badge for down voting?
Agree 100% with @muru. 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 ...
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Should we be concerned with prolific downvoters?
We can't say for sure what this person is doing but that sort of ratio isn't unusual for somebody who spends a lot of their time reviewing. There are a few review queues that expose you to posts that ...
OliMod
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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.
If anything, we should have an alert for people who upvote far more often than ...
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When exactly does a downvote cost 1 reputaion?
Downvotes as a result of "spam" or "rude/abusive" flags being cast and therefore automatically done don't cost you rep.
Downvotes on questions cost nothing.
Any answer downvote you do should cost ...
Thomas WardMod
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Should an answer be downvoted if it is outdated and at the top of the page
Here's my two cents on this. I'm going to talk in very general terms, because the question applies not just to one you linked, but to many other out there. And remember, this is just my personal ...
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What do you call it when four good answers are down-voted in the same question?
The term I would use for such behaviour is voting (i.e. there's nothing special about it).
Voting imho is a subset of moderation.
The only restriction on voting is that it must not be personal, i.e. ...
ZannaMod
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Should an answer be downvoted if it is outdated and at the top of the page
No, that's very rude in my opinion. I think there are better alternatives.
The answer needs additional details
If the original answer is correct as it is at the time of posting, but now requires ...
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Bullying as a strategy to force close a question
I'm not sure I should be answering this question, but here goes.
I can't comment on why other people downvote, but I sometimes do downvote questions as well as vote to close them if they are unclear.
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ZannaMod
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Why is this question about the solar eclipse so heavily downvoted?
After carefully reviewing the question at hand, I have come to the following conclusions:
The question is wholly useless.
It's not going to help anyone by any sense of the word. It's a humorous ...
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Isn't it weird that you type upgrades and get updates?
The definitions of both update and upgrade come from Debian, not Ubuntu. If you want those terms changed, you must convince the Debian community (not us).
If Debian changed the definitions tomorrow, ...
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Should we be concerned with prolific downvoters?
Thank you to all the contributors - it's been a great education for me and good to see the indepth discussion. I absolutely love the variety of the answers all of which are intelligent and eloquent.
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How to pragmatically deal with down-votes on a good question when you are the author of the questions?
Voting is the central moderation mechanism of Ask Ubuntu. Ideally, the score of a post should signal to visitors whether a post is likely to be useful or not. We even get a tooltip on hover telling us ...
ZannaMod
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What's the point of voting on questions (especially downvoting)?
if you think it's a bad question or not worth your time then just leave it, rather than taking the time to downvote it?
NO.
I'm not sorry. No.
I don't know how you use Stack Exchange sites or what ...
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Downvotes for answering own questions?
I want to add a bit to the two already existing excellent answers. if you solved a problem by using some guaranteed-to-solve methods (such as re-installing Ubuntu, removing it etc), then my advice ...
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What to do when posts are voted down for no reason?
First I'll try to answer the general question. Scroll down for my thoughts on the specific post.
If you know there is no reason at all for the downvotes, then the answer is to do nothing. Downvotes ...
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Should an answer be downvoted if it is outdated and at the top of the page
If the answer is no longer correct and you can fix it, then edit as pomsky suggested. If, however, it is now completely obsolete, so much as to be irrelevant, then yes you should downvote.
Sadly, a ...
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What's the point of voting on questions (especially downvoting)?
Downvoting questions is an important moderation task which helps to filter out low quality posts from the site.
Case in point: A question which is closed (except when closed as a duplicate) and has ...
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Has policy on downvotes changed?
It's OK to downvote a bad question, but it would also be a nice and recommended gesture to leave a comment explaining what could be improved.
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Isn't it weird that you type upgrades and get updates?
You are misunderstanding what the words are referring to. Which is understandable, it isn't particularly obvious. However, apt update will update the list of available packages. On the other hand apt ...
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Can I downvote answers for a duplicate question?
Generally, how you use your votes is up to you.
However, I would encourage you not to downvote answers just because duplicate posts exist. There are various reasons why people answer those questions, ...
ZannaMod
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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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Should we be concerned with prolific downvoters?
I got the impression that one user in particular might be regularly downvoting
The system will nuke this user. Someday.
I think a lot of people downvote without ever reading the question or answer. –...
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What do you call it when four good answers are down-voted in the same question?
Serial downvoting is explained here and seems to be the downvoting of multiple questions / answers from a single user so that leads me to believe that Parallel downvoting would be the expression you'...
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