This tag is for questions specific to down-votes, the community's way of telling peers that their content can be improved. Down-votes on meta site have different meanings.
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Should up and down votes be aged out for updated content?
Intent
To make down votes more useful and relevant.
Motivation
Down votes should be used as a tool to determine the quality of the question or answer. However, there is currently no mechanism to ...
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Casting of down votes decrements reputation? [duplicate]
I have seen many times that sometimes when I downvote a post , my repuation decrements by -1 and sometimes it does not?
What is the reason behind it?
And what are the exact scenarios when this ...
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Is my question considered poor just because it is simple?
I asked a question on Friday which sounded totally different than the after a 'suggested' edit has been made to it.
It was a very simple question (in terms of complexity): are two things the same or ...
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Add checkbox (including “other” with free text) for reason of Up / Down voting [duplicate]
There is a lengthy discussion at Change Down Voting to Require
Comment for Why & Change Flag to
Report.
Here is another alternative solution:
canned comments when downvoting new ...
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It's only your opinion because you don't know the answer
I've had this problem a few times and it is becoming noisome.
One form is:
A question is asked, readers do not know the answer and because of the type of question, invoke the "It's a matter of ...
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Critic badge reveals time of downvote
Voting is anonymous. One can't see who voted where, the only public information is the total amount of votes, in the user profile. For downvotes it's not even showing the daily amount to prevent cases ...
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1answer
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Closing as “primarily opinion-based” does not downvote the question [duplicate]
Since the recent closing changes, closing a question as "primarily opinion-based" does not result in the question receiving an automatic downvote.
An example of this that I have just seen is: 12 ...
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0answers
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Never show negative score [duplicate]
A suggestion for the vote-score (affects displaying method only, not the counting method):
I suggest that a question may receive negative votes, but it does not need to show the negative score at ...
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2answers
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Should I avoid discussing subjects that I am unfamiliar with?
I'm a bit discouraged by the bad reputation that I've gained recently. Whenever I ask a question about a programming language that I'm relatively unfamiliar with, it often brings me a lot of ridicule ...
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1answer
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If someone down-votes an answer, and gives a reason that the answer-er agrees with, should the answer-er delete the answer?
The situation was that someone asked a lazy question and I gave a lazy answer and got down-voted. The down-voter was kind enough to comment with a reason. I deleted my answer but wanted to know if ...
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0answers
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In StackOverflow, when is it appropriate to downvote an answer? [duplicate]
I've seen discussion about downvotes of questions. But I don't see any discussion, nor FAQ help, about downvotes of answers.
My operating assumption has been that a downvote of an answer is a "harsh" ...
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3answers
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Make the FAQ/about page clear about the meaning of downvoted questions
After some discussion about downvoting questions, my conclusion is that even though downvoting questions may serve a purpose, I believe it is currently psychologically harmful for the OP because he ...
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0answers
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How is downvoting questions any useful? [duplicate]
I've been thinking about this recently: How is downvoting questions of any use?
My personal conclusion is that downvoting questions makes Internet a worst place, without any benefit for the SE ...
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1answer
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Notification message for downvotes not displayed
Is the messagebox that is displayed when I downvote a question or answers disabled?
Currently i only get that blue messagebox on meta only
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0answers
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Should we drop the coloring of opinions in Meta? [duplicate]
Currently, like in Stack Overflow when an answer in meta gets a lot of downvotes it gets greyed out. This makes answers harder to read.
While the motivation for this is clear in Stack Overflow I'm ...
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0answers
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Bad answer → Downvote → Edit within 5 mins → Undo → Vote locked in [duplicate]
This answer gave a reason why the OP's code wasn't working, but didn't provide any alternative code; I downvoted it. Then the OP edited it to include some code, but my vote is still locked in:
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2answers
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What happens to a question when a user is deleted?
Say a user asked a question. He had answers on it, as well as upvotes and downvotes, but then his account is deleted for some reason. What will happen to all the questions, answers, upvotes and ...
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2answers
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Abusive behavior?
I have seen this many times. I answer a question with an ok answer, the votes start going up. The next morning I wake up and happen to log in and see that a couple high level users have come, picked ...
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2answers
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Downvotes on question negate 1 reputation point [duplicate]
User asked a Question where he recieved 9 downvotes(No positive vote).
On his profile I see:
Is downvote now negates only 1 reputation? Or Is this an exceptional case for low reputation user?
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0answers
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Reopened question notification to downvoters
The new changes about closing questions are supposed to be to encourage the people to modify and fix the question instead of just closing it (that why there is the new "on-hold").
But most of times ...
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0answers
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Is there a process for reporting or otherwise dealing with malicious downvotes? [duplicate]
The automated software doesn't seem to catch them if they happen gradually:
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1answer
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Does accepting a heavily downvoted answer make closing a question more likely?
I was wondering, if an answer gets a lot of downvotes but the OP is accepting that answer, will a moderator be likely to close the question?
I am talking about a few vote downs around 3. Will the ...
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vote
1answer
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How valid are partial solutions?
I'm new to answering questions on SO and I am getting discouraged.
Perl create class object by using variable as class name
I know my stuff on what I answer and I try to offer new directions to ...
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3answers
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How can I get rid of downvotes on my question?
I asked a question on StackOverflow yesterday: Java Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange implementation gotcha
Before asking I searched almost a day for solutions, including StackOverflow
I phrased the ...
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0answers
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Could stackoverflow provide a function to down vote a comment or mark it outstanding?
I think if a comment made directly on a question (not in answer's comment) is useless to the question owner, then the owner should have right to vote down or delete it.
know I can flag the comment ...
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0answers
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Wait until after “on hold” for the auto-−1
Since we're doing this whole Summer of Love Redux with closure becoming onholdure for five days so askers don't get insulted, I think the automatic −1 that comes with closure should also be delayed ...
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0answers
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Downvote on every Answer I've made [duplicate]
Is there any automation thats downvotes every answer I gave? Or could it be that somebody doesn't like me? What could I do against it?
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0answers
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DIdn't get the lost reputation when the downvoted answer is deleted
Today I saw this Error converting NSString to UTF8String question on Stack Overflow. There were some incorrect answers. I down-voted them all. I lost some points too (I know down-voting answer will ...
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2answers
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Unrelated downvotes because of criticism [duplicate]
So basically on a question I attempted and failed to answer, I have been following it because I am interested in the solution. People have been posting answers to solve it (some similar or identical ...
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1answer
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Regression of behavior on removal of downvote to 1-rep user's question
Removing a downvote on a post by a user with one rep point is not supposed to increase that user's reputation.
This occurred the other day, however:
Uh-oh!
(Devs/mods: there's a deleted comment ...
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3answers
189 views
Should I downvote incorrect answer on my own question?
I was asking a question and after placing a bounty of 200 points, I got two completely incorrect answers and was commenting on them. I had a dilemma whether I should also downvote them. Reasons ...
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1answer
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Which new close reasons carry automatic downvotes?
Historically closure as "off-topic" and "not a real question" carried automatic -1 votes given by Community when the question was closed.
Which of the new close reasons carry this penalty?
Is it ...
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1answer
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Downvoted on an answer to my own question! [closed]
I'd really like to know, after posting the answer to my own question (after much searching, and no help from the community) with the actual answer? I'd still have 2 reputation points if I didn't post ...
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0answers
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How about making the downvote during grace period behavior more clear?
This is a suggestion for a minor user interface tweak. Could SO make the behavior described in this question and this answer (answer edited after downvote but within the grace period still locks ...
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3answers
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Is down-voting really useful for Stack Exchange sites? An alternative solution
EDIT: Added my thoughts about "downvote as quality info"; removed the part about opinions (thank you Manishearth); explained better the proposal.
The question is already in title: do you think that ...
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2answers
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Why do moderators lose rep when downvoting answers?
The reason for losing rep for downvoting has been discussed at length. But why do moderators lose rep when downvoting answers, especially when using the moderator tools?
When I am handling flags, ...
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1answer
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Some downvotes were reversed - does this mean someone is bullying me?
I started a proposal on Area51 SE called Bible Answers and it was downvoted very heavily by my perception. Two -7 on questions I proposed. I don't have many points so losing 50 caused me to lose ...
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1answer
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Do votes down on an answer canceled for deleting it? [duplicate]
I mistakenly answered a question and got voted down. Now, I've learned the lesson, can I delete the answer to cancel the votes (after all, the voting mechanism purpose is to give feedback to the ...
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0answers
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Did this review audit react invalidly?
I recently received the big red failure message for reviewing this audit review, which now says I "passed" the audit.
For my review, I had intended to (1) downvote, (2) leave a comment, and (3) flag ...
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0answers
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If I downvote an answer to -1, I don't get the “delete” link until I reload [duplicate]
Stack Overflow has a bunch of nice UI things that are XHR'd.
However, when I vote to -1 an answer, I need to reload to get the delete link. It's not very obvious, as most things just work.
Could we ...
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2answers
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Why do good answers get downvoted? [duplicate]
I've recently noticed this answer got a down-vote. A lot of good answers contain one, or two down-votes.
Now I realize this is how the system works, and that other users are entitled to have their ...
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0answers
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How to craft a good question? [duplicate]
I mostly use stack exchange to ask questions. I always strive to be very specific and to carve out questions that have a specific answer. Why are my questions always downvoted? what am I doing wrong?
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2answers
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How do mods handle confessions of (trivial) vindictive downvoting?
A question was posted
The first answer was bad, and I downvoted it, and it was quickly deleted
myself and two others answered, and all three answers were downvoted at the same time (saw this happen).
...
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3answers
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When users were more neutral about questions they “dislike”
I started using stackoverflow.com as a reader from Google's answers, but soon I realized that I could do more than just that, and could ask new questions and try to answer others.
When I say "try" it ...
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1answer
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Why has my specific question been downvoted?
I have asked this question:
Rdlc 2008 matrix : Display grand total as the sum of averages (custom subtotal)
Suddenly I find that the question has been downvoted to -1 . What is the reason for this? ...
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4answers
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Was my use of downvote and upvote warranted?
My Understanding of Downvotes and Upvotes
It was my understanding that using downvotes and upvotes was the right way to:
increase visibility of valid and high-quality answers,
decrease visibility ...
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Should questions having lots of downvotes be downvoted further? [duplicate]
Is down-voting an already heavily down-voted/closed question kind of like kicking a dead horse? Is this bad practice?
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1answer
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Why reputation goes down after voting down? [duplicate]
Is there any reason for a reputation decrease after voting down a wrong or inappropriate answer or question? This just annoys some users, including me! NO one wants to lose his/her reputation at any ...
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1answer
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Help Center > Reputation & Privileges Error
On the Reputation & Privileges Help page, the section about losing reputation is incorrect.
You lose reputation when: :
1. question is voted down: −2 (-1 to voter)
2. you place a bounty on a ...
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What can I do about an angry downvoter doing something deliberately? [duplicate]
Just a few minutes ago I noticed this
It's pretty evident that somebody just got angry about something, clicked on my profile, found some answers and just went ahead to downvote many of them. I am ...