Downvotes are the community's way of telling peers that their content can be improved. Downvotes on meta may have different meanings.
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downvotes again
The wisdom on the site seems to be that we should ignore downvotes when there is no good reason for them. I'm trying to be wise. But twice in the last 2 days I've been downvoted on answers that were ...
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Negative votes on meta should not be migrated as well
Do negative votes on questions that were incorrectly posted in meta and then being migrated to the main site, like this one (the main question here), carry over their reputation malus for the main ...
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Is downvoting all solutions to a question that turns out to be a duplicate an acceptable use of downvotes?
So here a certain user has downvoted all the answers because he "can't believe" we didn't tag it as a duplicate instead. (In case you're wondering if I'm just speculating about the downvotes' origin, ...
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Downvoting to order?
I have stumbled with the following in a user profile.
I use downvotes to organize answers to a question. By voting up I bring up the answers that I consider more important, useful, or that I think ...
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I suddenly received some downvotes, help me improve my questions.
why $R=\frac{F}{N}$?
$\left\{a_n-a_1,a_n-a_2,\text{...},a_n-a_m,\text{...}\right\}<\varepsilon $?
$\xi$ is the least upper bound of $M$.
Dedekind's theorem, are they the same?
Why so many ...
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A very small favor to ask re downvoted answers
In this question, I initially messed up and put in an incorrect result. Blindingly fast, the answer was downvoted. I raced to correct the result, but by then there was already a correct result. So I ...
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Random downvotes
Today I've got two downvotes in 1-minute interval. One of them was on a banal answer to a today's banal question, and another one on a completely unrelated 1-week old non-banal first correct answer. ...
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1answer
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Downvotes, downvotes for all! [duplicate]
It is strange that every good answer here has exactly two downvotes each. Would it be sensible to revert this, or should we not care?
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Re-asking a question to get rid of a negative score?
There is a rather nice question in the group-theory tag at the moment. It deals with the pre-requisites needed to understand a rather famous result. You can find the question here.
An answer to this ...
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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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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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1answer
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Drive-by downvoting [duplicate]
Three hours ago someone downvoted without comment five of my recent contributions that have nothing in common but being five of my recent contributions. Should I be suspicious, and if so, is there ...
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In praise of silence
I want to praise silent downvotes. I think they are underused, underappreciated, and misunderstood. This may be due to statements such as one in down-voting tag ...
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1answer
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Proposal: Stop displaying the downvotes or upvotes corresponding to an answer
Here is why:
It is probably backed by insufficient data but it is possible
a) People often vote up a post because it was already upvoted by others.
b) More importantly, people downvote some posts ...
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1answer
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How to bring to attention spiteful down-voting?
I am almost convinced that there is an experienced user on the site, who keeps down-voting my posts. The experienced user seems to know the tricks of the trade, i.e., this user is aware that serial ...
