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Let's NOT participate in the one-rep voting experiment
I assumed this was opt in, so the default would be for us to not be in it, but if isn't, I'd agree, we shouldn't be in it.
Ask Ubuntu is a top-5 Stack Exchange site in terms of registered users (№ 3!),...
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Are votes more dramatic on Meta?
Votes on meta are a completely different thing than votes on main. Since they carry no penalty (for either caster or receiver) they are often given more freely. Most importantly, voting on Meta is ...
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General Voting Etiquette
No, there is no time limit on voting. As long as a post continues to exist, it's useful for its score to be displayed to show people what other members of the community thought of it. It remains ...
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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.
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You can vote - do it!
I agree with this post. Though from my inspection, number of bad questions has increased on the site as number of daily visits has. But It's also true that many good questions as well as answers are ...
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Only 30 days and -1 to remove a question?
I think it's good that the system does this, and I don't think it should be more difficult for questions to be deleted automatically.
I think that what happened in Franck Dernoncourt's case is ...
ZannaMod
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Voting for more questions and how to find them
I usually vote up a question if it meets any of these conditions:
I can answer it with the information given and I don't see any reason why it should be closed
Someone else has answered it well or I ...
ZannaMod
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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 ...
OliMod
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Are votes more dramatic on Meta?
Although I think terdon's answer is the main reason for the number of upvotes, I'd like to add a couple more reasons that help as well. And since you specifically mentioned the homepage in your ...
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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 ...
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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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Disturbing voting trends
I have to agree with your assessment of the recent question quality. This may be just due to an influx of new users who think any question they can't answer must be a good one. To be fair, I have no ...
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Spontaneous Reputation Loss
I didn't down-vote any of your posts. I did make a suggestion to improve one...before you deleted it.
You're absolutely right that it's awful when somebody is clearly being mean. Many of us have ...
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Let's NOT participate in the one-rep voting experiment
Just a counterpoint, consider the type of traffic we get. Ask Ubuntu is a technical site, making us somewhat less sticky than the er, deductive science sites. A lot of our traffic follows this pattern:...
OliMod
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Should I be able to change my vote if an answer becomes outdated? Or should I take another action?
In these cases, I edit the answer to add a note like
This answer was valid for Ubuntu 20.04 and previous versions. For Ubuntu 20.10 and later versions, see this answer (link).
In case the new ...
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Disturbing voting trends
Upvotes should be only for questions which have details of what exactly is the problem and what they have done till now to solve it.
Meanwhile, new users can sometimes ask questions which look ...
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Does voting up have to be serious?
I for one take voting very seriously.
I upvote questions that I answer as clearly I found them interesting enough to answer them. Ideally they should meet the minimum guidelines. This might be after ...
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I don't know how to title this
I agree with you that the number of incorrect* off-topic - not about Ubuntu close votes has seemed particularly high of late. In addition to the two you mentioned, I've noticed that questions about ...
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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Spontaneous Reputation Loss
Fun fact, when you get serial downvoted or attacked by reputation, the system is kinda smart.
Here's what your reputation tracker says:
Downvotes on your posts which were then removed led to ...
Thomas WardMod
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Please consider leaving feedback on votes for new users
A great proposal. I think when down-voting anyone you should give a comment. Indeed I think the software suggests you do so.
We all started with rep zero. We are all human beings with feelings and ...
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Only 30 days and -1 to remove a question?
Is it just me, or is this far to heavy handed?
I agree it is too heavy handed. I agree that amending the threshold to -3 would be better.
Some considerations:
downvoters use it to delete questions ...
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Voting for more questions and how to find them
Be careful with upvoting excessively!
(just have a look at my reputation stats)
I used to upvote every day until I ran out of upvotes and a lot of other people did so too. As you end up voting for ...
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Only 30 days and -1 to remove a question?
"If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?".
If it's a really bad question it would be close voted.
If it's a good question it will be voted up.
If ...
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Please don't just vote posts up because you feel sorry for them getting voted down
Conversely if you read an answer that with up-vote(s) don't vote it down because it doesn't meet your literary standards or you think you could have answered it better. That's mean spirited. Add a ...
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Let's NOT participate in the one-rep voting experiment
At the risk of just so many downvotes, I'd like to share my experience as a new user.
I have posted one question on the forum. Within about 2 hours I got an answer. Unfortunately, it was just a "...
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Large number of -1 posts
I'm afraid we can not really investigate that issue as moderators, because individual users' votes are anonymous and there is no way to know who voted on a specific post.
Probably the pattern will ...
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Guidelines when voting for friends
This occurs on almost every popular SE site. I recommend migrating this to Meta SE.
Assuming this issue may affect the meaning of reputation, or cause true disturbance in the system, is quite a ...
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Only top scored, non community-wiki answers of a minimum length are eligible