Peer voting on questions and answers is the primary way users gain reputation, and also how many items are sorted to the top.
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Indication required for up voted comment in Android app
There is no indication for the comments on question which I have already up-voted.
In app, user can do vote-up as many as he wants to play with it (Though its not incrementing up vote counter on Web ...
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Why is there no feature suggesting new answers to up-voted questions?
Maybe there is such a feature but if so it is IMHO not prominent enough since I did not stumbled upon it even when I was looking for it.
As you can see I joined the community just recently and I ...
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Is the script that reverses serial downvotes finicky?
A few days ago I noticed that I lost a few points when someone downvoted three answers of mine, each of which had a decent number of upvotes and were the accepted answer, in the span of about 20 ...
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Don't prevent me from undoing a vote
I recently downvoted an answer because it seemed totally irrelevant to the question at hand. When I checked back a short time later, a comment had clarified that the answer was, indeed, a good one. ...
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The Greater Good
Yesterday I was the first to answer this SQL question. I answered off the top of my head and didn't have SSMS nearby to give a more... optimized answer, so I gave one that works, but that uses a CASE ...
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discrepancy in undo voting [duplicate]
There is a discrepancy I noticed in voting system while undoing a vote.
As per rule, the voted answer can not be un-voted after a specific period of time. If at all this could be changed its only ...
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Marking someone elses question as answered [duplicate]
The question here: Is it possible to forward declare a static array was asked a long time ago (2009) and earlier this year a solution was given by the user D.A. However, the user (now inactive) that ...
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In hotness formula, discard answers when voting evidence indicates that these are not good data points
In current version of “hot” questions formula (Qanswers * Qscore) *, all answers are assumed to equally contribute to question "hotness score", including even those downvoted into oblivion.
Suggest ...
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Can we stop people from down voting answers that might not be bad? [closed]
I asked a question at this link: How to create an app that has public data, but immediately after I asked the question, someone down voted it. My suggestion is, don't make the question or answer down ...
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Why vote on more than 600 questions?
After aquiring the electorate badge, I suddenly became tired of voting. Now I'm running for the steward badge, and I probally will just ignore the queue after 1000 reviews.
I understand that 1000 ...
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(Up)Voting on Low-Quality Posts in Review tasks
I've searched and have seen similar questions, which are often marked as duplicates and point one to Why is voting removed from the new review system. In the accepted answer from said thread, it says ...
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The Reputation Model for Voting [duplicate]
I have been with StackOverflow since almost more than a year (as a user).
I have always been willing to contribute to StackOverflow by voting for the best contributions at the very least.
The problem ...
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Answer Votes of 0 on tags with only Question Votes
Some tags are only ever encountered by users in questions, not in answers. So, on that user's tags tab of their profile, the tag appears with a 0 next to it. The score obviously represents the user's ...
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Flexible Width Tag Counts
The following picture was taken from Jon Skeet's tags tab on Stack Overflow.
As you can see, the 54k count fits centered in its container, but for counts greater than 99k, the count is no longer ...
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1answer
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How downvote and upvote really works? [duplicate]
Today I downvoted an answer so it went from 0 to -1
But I realised it was by mistake so I upvoted the same answer again but this time the value went up to +1.
I was expecting this to be zero.
I ...
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General Attitude: Stack Overflow: Non-constructive attitude, rather than constructive criticism [duplicate]
Is it just me, or is there a general non-constructive attitude, rather than constructive criticism on Stack Overflow?
I am having difficulty aligning my internal compass. I understand that certain ...
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Can anybody see my voting history? [duplicate]
Can anybody (excluding me, of course) see my voting history?
Do moderators have access to that?
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Change of question/answer/comment after voting
A user can change an answer/comment after it has been up- and/or downvoted. And the new version of the answer/question may be very different than what the readers first up-/downvoted. On the extreme, ...
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Different votes on Identical questions posted at same time [duplicate]
Two duplicate questions posted at the same time. Here and here.
They were posted about a new feature that was implemented overnight (overnight for me), and the original question is only 13 hours ...
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Make Vote after 30 Seconds [duplicate]
Yesterday, I saw serial upvotes to my Questions and Answers.
Today all those upvotes were reversed, as per the rules.
But, today I see that I am being serial-downvoted.
Now, I don't know if ...
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Allow accept / unaccept to reset vote timer
Occasionally I will find that a sub-optimal answer has been selected by the OP as the accepted answer, when a much better answer exists. Sometimes I feel responsible to down-vote the selected answer ...
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Logged in users with less than 15 reputation should be able to give feedback
If I'm not logged in to any Stack Exchange site, I can give feedback clicking on vote button:
But if I'm logged in, and I have less than 15 reputation, I get a message that more reputation is ...
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On reputation section: all vote values are not shown for each event [duplicate]
I just reviewed a reputation for some users and I found that all vote values are not shown for some events, I don't know if this is a bug or just normal behavior, I didn't found any information about ...
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Voting on other's answers to make my answer look better
Is it selfish or frowned upon not to upvote another answer (even if its right) so yours will rise to the top faster?
I find myself wanting to un-upvote posts so my answer will do better... But I have ...
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Why do you need a whopping 125 points to vote a question down, but need so few to vote it up? [duplicate]
What formulated this logic implemented on the point system?
For example, evidence can show that there exists positive spam as well as negative, i.e., a user can up vote a question just to abuse the ...
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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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The strange case of Dr. Upvoter and Mr. Edit
Not a rant, just curiosity :)
In this question from Jan 2013, I answered normally (not my best answer ever, but still worth reading I guess, and it gained one upvote).
Another answer was marked as ...
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Voting doesn't work on mobile site
If I try to vote on the mobile site, all I get is the message that an error occurred. I've tried clearing my network settings, and logging out an in. Nothing fixes it. The only way to fix it is to use ...
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increase upvote lock time to ~ a day
Would anyone be in favor of increasing the time you have to "lock" in your vote? I find that I upvote a user's answer after -- lets call it -- "brief" testing, only to find some flaws in it an hour, ...
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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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What will happen to reputations when a post turns back to normal post from C.W?
A per Community wiki description,
The original author keeps the reputation gained (or lost) before their
post entered community mode.
The original author can flag the post to moderator ...
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Inconsistent popup notification colors
I have noticed that the popup notification, "daily vote limit reached" has different colors depending (I assume) on how close the user is to being able to vote again. For instance, a user got this ...
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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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How to revoke an upvote?
I have wrongly upvoted a question, but when I tried to undo it, it didn't allow me to because of privilege restrictions.
Is there any option to revoke the upvote?
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Should we put upvote/downvote button at the end of the text?
I find that when I am reading a question or an answer ( especially a long one like this), I will often just upvote/downvote it even before I have finished reading! Call me lazy, call me whatever you ...
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Down voting bug [duplicate]
As far as I know each down vote is supposed to reduce reputation by 1 ,but I have down voted some question and answers but my reputation hasn't changed. Is this a bug or I'm mistaken
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Upvote and downvote tooltip always says “answer”
The upvote/downvote tooltip here on Meta was changed to simply "this answer is useful" or "this answer is not useful". Nice and dandy. Only problem is, that it's showing that tooltip on the ...
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How can I view the total number of downvotes that a user has received?
Since the amount of reputation lost from downvoting a question is less than the amount of reputation gained from upvoting a question, it would be possible for a user to have more than one reputation ...
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Voting on Meta is not just for (dis)agreement. Update the help center to reflect this
Voting on Meta is a bit of a two-headed beast. In addition to the regular meaning of votes as on other sites, the votes on Meta are sometimes also cast to express agreement or disagreement.
In the ...
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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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Possibility of upvote bombing to suspend account
Could it be possible for someone to get numerous people to upvote all of your questions/answers in an attempt to make it look like voting fraud is going on and suspending/deleting accounts?
For ...
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The votes tab in the user profile should track posts
Many of the tabs in the current profile have indicators, which highlight recent activity in the tab:
Opening the tab will highlight the recent activity for you.
Now, there have been many ...
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Does the positive score include zero in Stack Overflow?
I know the process of awarding sportsmanship badge.
The definition
Up voted 100 answers on questions where an answer of yours has a
positive score
Does the positive score mean zero, ie ...
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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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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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Down/up vote tooltips should speak differently on meta [duplicate]
As more experienced users know, votes work differently on Meta. However, the tooltips still say the same as on other StackExchange sites:
The tooltips are:
Question up vote: This question shows ...
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Review Close Votes queue not allowing vote to post
Related post for upvote on comment
While reviewing close-votes queue I found some good question, which deserves upvote but the interface not allowed me to vote from that screen. Now I have to open ...
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Do you stop getting helpful flags once you can vote to close?
I noticed that once I hit 3,000 rep and could vote to close I seemed to stop getting helpful flags. The behavior is different too. Before I would flag a post for being non-constructive or whatever, ...
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Voting to Close after Accidentally Voting to Leave Open
When reviewing on SO, I accidentally pushed the "Leave Open" button on a post that clearly should've been closed. I pushed the back button and saw that in the review panel my vote to keep open had ...
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Why reward an answer to a low quality question?
Consider a question like this How to concatenate echos.
A great deal of the questions nowadays seems to be questions which could be solvable by spending five to ten minutes reading a decent tutorial ...
