Timeline for Wouldn't everyone who has a post vote down the other posts?
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| May 10, 2020 at 21:03 | comment | added | user1061912 | Excellent observation. +1 | |
| May 16, 2013 at 17:16 | comment | added | Daniel Beck Mod | We actually had a user a year or two ago who downvoted most questions about topics he didn't care about (because they clearly were bad and took up valuable space that could be used for questions about his favorite topics). I wonder how long he managed to do that. (Question down votes don't even cost reputation now, but I don't know whether that was back when that cost 1 rep too). | |
| May 16, 2013 at 15:15 | review | Close votes | |||
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| May 16, 2013 at 15:09 | answer | added | Journeyman GeekMod | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 16, 2013 at 14:50 | comment | added | HelpingHand | Alright, yeah, I didn't notice that I wasn't losing reputation. Anyway, thank you for the help. Good day to you all. | |
| May 16, 2013 at 14:48 | comment | added | slhck Mod | I'd say, don't worry about getting downvotes on Meta sites. It's not like you're losing reputation over it or you'll be banned from asking further questions. Editing your question to change its original meaning would probably do more harm than good here. | |
| May 16, 2013 at 14:47 | comment | added | HelpingHand | And so do I now?! So if I edit it to not say that, will you upvote it? | |
| May 16, 2013 at 14:45 | comment | added | slhck Mod | People disagree with your premise that it is pointless to allow users to downvote competing answers. | |
| May 16, 2013 at 14:45 | comment | added | HelpingHand | Oh, okay. But what is there to agree to? Its a question!! | |
| May 16, 2013 at 14:44 | comment | added | slhck Mod | See FAQ: On Meta, voting is often used to express agreement or disagreement, not to point out a lack of quality or helpfulness. | |
| May 16, 2013 at 14:43 | comment | added | HelpingHand | Why did you guys downvote my question?? Does it not show research effort?? How can you research this?? | |
| May 16, 2013 at 14:43 | comment | added | Oliver Salzburg Mod | @HelpingHand: Downvoting costs your reputation. And just because you downvote something, doesn't make your answer right. People who would behave in the way you describe, would be very unlikely to even earn the privilege to downvote, as you need 125 reputation to even be able to do it. | |
| May 16, 2013 at 14:41 | answer | added | slhckMod | timeline score: 7 | |
| May 16, 2013 at 14:41 | vote | accept | HelpingHand | ||
| May 16, 2013 at 14:37 | answer | added | rtf | timeline score: 9 | |
| May 16, 2013 at 14:35 | comment | added | HelpingHand | No, no you don't understand. I'm just saying that it is possible to do so. What would be the downfall of preventing those who answer the question themselves from downvoting other answers to the same question? | |
| May 16, 2013 at 14:33 | comment | added | slhck Mod | Please show specific evidence of people generally downvoting all other answers to a question they've answered themselves, just to make their answer stand out better. While the system does allow you to do this, I'd be very surprised if you could bring up any examples that show this behavior on a large scale. | |
| May 16, 2013 at 14:30 | comment | added | HelpingHand | Because the ones who are answering a question will constantly downvote all other answers. This would be a false voting process because the person who voted had an agenda (not that the answer was not written well). When someone downvotes others answers, his answer would transitively raise to the top. | |
| May 16, 2013 at 14:29 | comment | added | Karan | Precisely, explain why you think it's pointless. Other than revenge downvoting, people generally don't go on a downvoting binge. Besides the (minor) loss to the downvoter's rep, pulling down other valid answers provides no great advantage that I can think of. Perhaps you can and would like to share? | |
| May 16, 2013 at 13:57 | comment | added | Sathyajith Bhat Mod | Why is it pointless? | |
| May 16, 2013 at 13:56 | history | asked | HelpingHand | CC BY-SA 3.0 |