Downvotes on meta are different from the main site.

@gertvdijk The "official" phrasing is "When you vote down, you are nudging that content "down" the page, so it will be seen by fewer people". This translates to (for example) questions disappearing from the front page after a certain threshold (-4 on main).

@gertvdijk For one, non-spam downvoted posts take a while to be deleted. Secondly spam-flags can delete a post fully on their own - preventing the post from disappearing without being deleted reduces the amount of people that can see it and subsequently act upon it. The spam flag's own downvote is sufficient - and it helps everyone see just how many flags the post already has.

I strongly recommend that you read through the /help center. Particularly concerning meta.

meta tags on meta ... That's a new one.

One thing of note, as I see those questions reached -9 votes: Do not downvote SPAM questions. Flags already generate their own automatic downvote - further downvotes reduce a spam question's visibility and make it harder for other people to find and subsequently flag them.

Are you sure you're not just mixing up meta flags and main flags? Flag count depends on the ratio of helpful flags, and (at higher counts) reputation - this means meta flags and main flags are calculated independently (their helpful flag counts are different).

Quite frankly, invalid badges are the least of my worries, as long as we don't get the "TRUST ME, I HAZ GOLD BADGE!" posts too often.

It's correct - you receive AssocBonus on all sites, including the one you earned it on.

Looks like what you're posting is so short, the site considers it a comment rather than an answer and automatically converts it.

@WarrenHill I'd use the MSO QA for such questions - There is no answer to that yet.

Just for the record, this has nothing to do with the redesign. It's an update to Stack Exchange.

Now how about we turn down the hostility a bit, hm?

Related: meta.askubuntu.com/questions/5276

@Seth It's a "because." answer and it's 6 am here! What did you expect? :P

Because we have to draw the line somewhere. The official derivatives list does that for us.