This tag is for questions specific to upvotes, the community's way of telling peers that their content was clear and helpful. Up-votes on the meta sites may have different meanings.
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Should I be able to cancel my up-vote on a comment?
Like mentioned on uservoice:
For something that can be done so
easily by accident, there should be
the ability to undo mistakes.
I know that I have clicked several times on a comment up-vote ...
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2answers
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See Who is Upvoting/ Downvoting My Question/Answer
Is there any way for me to see who is upvoting or downvoting me? Apart from looking at the data dump, of course.
No, I will not go after those who downvoted me, but it's interesting to know, anyway.
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5answers
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Allow users to leave an anonymous comment when voting
I don't know if people don't explain why they up or down vote because they don't care or because they don't want the person to know they voted on an answer (or question)... But, it might be nice to be ...
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4answers
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Migrated question's answers can be upvoted twice by the same user
This question was created on Server Fault, answered on Server Fault, I upvoted some of those answers on Server Fault, and then moved by consensus to Super User.
Now that the question is on Super ...
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17answers
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Should the weight of question upvotes be reduced?
After thinking about
http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7322/should-the-weight-of-downvotes-be-increased
which I declined for the reasons specified in my answer, and
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19
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10answers
745 views
Why should I upvote a question?
I've been wondering about this ever since I signed up on SO. With answers, it's easy to determine what to upvote. Is it helpful, is it informative, is it correct?
None of that really applies to a ...
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6answers
368 views
Why not get reputation when your question is marked a favorite by somebody?
I apologize if this has already been asked. I searched for information but couldn't find any. I was wondering why reputation isn't given when somebody marks your answer as a favorite. I have a ...
3
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2answers
238 views
No reputation for upvote given? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How does “Reputation” work?
After answering a question earlier on SO, I realized that the upvotes to my answer do not increase my reputation. I've checked and I am sure ...
29
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12answers
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Upvoting based on celebrity, too many upvotes (“excessive rep slurping”)
I have noticed a couple of kinds of behavior that seem to crop up in the SO community, and it really seems to artificially boost reputation. There may not be a solution (or it may not be a problem!) ...
4
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6answers
219 views
If you bookmark a question, shouldn't you also be encouraged to upvote it?
I wrote a question today that, thus far, has received five answers (plus one from me) and zero upvotes. That's fine, it happens. But, this irks me a little, someone actually bookmarked it and (unless ...
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1answer
196 views
How can I see what percentage of my votes were on questions versus answers? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Electorate badge progress, Pundit, etc too
This is probably a duplicate but after 10 minutes of reading (very long) threads on the Electorate badge I wasn't able to find ...
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12answers
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Please return to the old sorting by time method of answers with the same number of votes
The responses from this question:
http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/17624/what-has-happened-to-the-sorting-of-answers-on-stack-overflow
Seem to indicate disagreement with this change. ...
20
votes
2answers
655 views
Do you get points for upvoted comments?
Do you get points/reputation for upvoted comments?
I know this is a question I should be able to find easily, but I can't seem to find it by searching here or skimming the faq. Thanks
3
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3answers
242 views
Can the upvote and downvote counts be shown separately?
Sometimes I felt just total vote count do not represent the whole scenario(liking/disliking) of the community. In case of mine, my last question got upvoted 5 times and downvoted 4 times. But the ...
10
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3answers
196 views
Clarification about daily cap and accepted answers
I read in FAQ about daily cap limit and that it does not include accepted answers. However it can be read in 2 ways:
The 15 points for accepted answer is not included
The upvotes on accepted answer ...
