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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On the response to self-vandalised questions
I have noticed that occasionally someone will deface their own question, presumably in an attempt to cover their tracks. I have also noticed that when someone does this the question attracts plenty of ...
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About not upvoted, answered questions
A few minutes ago I saw a question with at least two standard answers, I mean, plain answers to the question, without warnings/cautions/etc. The weird thing (at least to me) is that such question had ...
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Why there is no timer for upvoting?
As far as I know, you can't upvote two comments in less than 5 seconds. Why don't we have such a system for up/down-voting questions? For example once you vote you can't vote again for 10 or 15 ...
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1answer
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Serial upvoting on community-wiki answers reversed, user reputation decreases?
Today I upvoted some recent community-wiki answers with 0 score to get some questions off from the unanswered queue, maybe I voted too fast, like briefly reading through the question and answer for a ...
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0answers
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Daily vote limit reached yet votes on the vote cast page only add up to 32 [duplicate]
Last two days I have been voting on some recent community-wiki answers with 0 score, yesterday I used up my 40 votes (not to confused with the user with this name).
However today, after the system ...
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1answer
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Why is the number of votes displayed inconsistently?
If I view the bottom of my profile page, then it is displayed that I have cast $2087$ votes. On the other hand, if I click on the "votes" tab on the right of my profile page, and if I subsequently ...
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1answer
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Why don't upvotes and downvotes for a single post cancel out for reputation? [duplicate]
I would think that if three people voted my post up and three voted it down then I would see no reputation change, but in fact that is not the case. Why?
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1answer
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How can a question net minus six votes but gain two reputation points?
A recent question was posted by a user who had no other registered activity but had gained 2 reputation points. This would be possible if he had received (say) 4 up-votes and 9 down-votes, so that he ...
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1answer
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Why votes should stay fixed?
Questions and answers can be edited. Why votes should stay fixed after some time?
I find that the main importance for votes is to give information to the future reader about the question and the ...
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1answer
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Able to vote after reaching daily limit
I burnt through my 30+x votes very quickly today, leading to the notice (in blue upon reaching the limit, in red upon trying to vote thereafter):
You've reached your daily vote limit; vote again ...
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2answers
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Up Vote Down Vote
There are questions that are fine that they don't in themselves deserve negative votes. However, sometimes such posts get unusually high votes.
I understand that the up-vote and down-vote criterion ...
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1answer
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“Welcome to MSE…”: Popup to remind new users to upvote and accept answers
I applaud the decision of the SE designers to "gameify" their sites by introducing features like reputation and badges. For me that's a nice side-effect, but a brief perusal of my profile makes it ...
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1answer
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Point difference between upvotes and downvotes
Is it really a good idea for upvotes to give +10 points and downvotes only -2? I've noticed that downvoting posts often produces "sympathy" upvotes by other users seeking to maintain the vote total ...
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0answers
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Why can only established users view vote counts?
Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see the threat to either the site or to individual contributors if all are allowed to see this information.
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1answer
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Why can I vote more than positions
It seems unreasonable that I can vote more number of candidates than the posts available like in recent election.
I am requesting feature request to adjust this.
It is reasonable that while voting I ...
