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Concept of "conditional" downvotes?
Down-voted questions seem to fall into two categories: fixable and unfixable. Some questions are just inappropriate, easily answerable with minimal search effort, or have other problems for which ...
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Is downvoting link only answers acceptable?
Related:
Ban lmgtfy (le me google that for you) links
Based on the Why is linking bad? question as well as Are answers that contain only links really good answers? question, is it acceptable ...
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Migration of votes
When a question is migrated to another site, any upvotes are transferred with it and are credited on the target site.
Questions that are off-topic here often receive downvotes simply because they're ...
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Negative up-vote/down-vote ratio: is it effective mentoring, or too harsh?
Voting on the questions and answers within the Super User community has often been a lively topic of discussion. Our voting tendencies are deemed important enough that during past Super User ...
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Is it sometimes too easy to identify a downvoter?
I once asked on meta stackoverflow - should downvoters be identified...
Should downvoters be identified?
An unpopular idea, understandably given the possibility of a petty downvoting war.
The thing ...
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Help me understand a comment and downvote that a user made on my answer
https://superuser.com/a/963738/99549
On a windows 10 question I gave the above answer, only known to work in earlier versions. I got an (seemingly authoritative?) downvote saying:
"answer should be ...
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Suspicious downvote pattern
I have noticed some suspicious downvotes on my questions recently.
Jul 25
-2 23:44 downvote XML, XHTML, SGML and HTML
Jul 23
-2 51 mins ago downvote GUI editor for editing djvu ...
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What did I do wrong in my question about Windows Update?
I asked the question Windows Update gives 0x80070643 error on fresh Windows 10 install. I provided the steps that led to the issue and the troubleshooting steps I tried to solve it. When people ...
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Should we downvote answers to questions that should not be asked?
I often see questions, like this one that should be closed as they are very, very poor questions.
And because I expect this one to be closed or deleted, here are the question and comments so far:
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Is my answer so improbable or too low quality?
I asked a question and it was answered. However, I figured out that the origin was completely different and the circumstances will be hard to figure out, so I answered my own question, describing the ...
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How to defend new users from unconstructive downvoting
This may be somewhat duplicate, but I think the issue still stands on its own compared to others.
I've noticed a depressing trend for new users, who often write poorly formed questions, having their ...
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Is it OK to downvote link only or link/copy/paste answers? [duplicate]
This is related to this question from Diago last year. I have seen a lot of answers with either a link only, or a link with a short description copy/pasted from the developer's website.
Personally ...
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Why was my post about Windows 3.1 icons found in Windows 7 placed on hold?
I have a question about my Super User post: Why are there Windows 3.1 icons in Windows 7?
I recently posted a question about icons I had located in C:\Windows\System32\MorIcons.Dll. Almost as soon as ...
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What can I do to discourage subjective downvoting on my question?
The question here (How can I make Windows Server 2012 R2 like Windows 8.1?) is being downvoted by several people because they don't think it is a good idea, although it is a clear question. What can I ...
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I got my first downvote and I don't know why
I'm pretty new to superuser and recently posted my first question as I was having trouble booting in haiku. (Haiku panics at boot "vm_page_fault: unhandled page fault in kernel space")
I ...
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Is there a better site for this question?
Wondering if I should move https://superuser.com/questions/768807/how-to-see-my-own-domain-from-host-server to another site? Or if it belongs here, what I might do to improve it, since it is being ...
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Getting downvotes I don't understand
Could someone please tell me what's wrong with this question I asked?, it first got a downvote and no answers, shortly later I changed the question and still I got downvoted again.
I'v asked alot of ...
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Downvote on 'legitmate' answer
I'm curious, and would like to hear some opinion
How should I see on the down-vote on this?
It feels like the reader didn't like to hear what most certainly is the 'truth' about these devices.
I ...
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Downvoting a Closed Thread?
This is more of a overall StackExchange question than anything else, but it springs to mind that users can downvote a question that has been closed.
Why is this the case? If a thread was closed for ...
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Is there any moderation for users who cast counter-productive votes?
I just posted a carefully written and on-topic question. It took over 10 minutes of my time to phrase everything just right and make the question clear. Within 2 minutes, some other user hastily ...
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Negative votes on newest questions
I just scrolled down the 50 newest questions. Probably MORE than half of those have a -1 and just even reading the titles I don't think there is reason. Is there a single person doing all these?
Is ...
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Question received no rep, but an answer mentioning the question received negative rep; why?
A while back, I asked the question Leading zeros in IPv4 address; is that a no-no by convention or standard?, which in hindsight could possibly have gone on another Stack Exchange, maybe Networking. ...
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What could be the reason for downvote on a question without any clarifications?
Two folders with weird names with huge size. What are those? What should I do with them?
I just want to know the reason of downvote. I really do not feel that the question is technically wrong or ...
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Should I flag an answer which *tries* to answer the question, but is useless for this *particular* question [duplicate]
Going through the late answer review queue, I came across this answer. While it should normally be helpful ('root' and 'toor' should be the default username and password from what I recall), in this ...
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Downvote for a working answer, only because it means too much effort compared to available answers?
Is there a kind of rule to post only those answers which offer a solution with a needed time investment that is in good proportion with already available answers? So that a working answer may get ...
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dealing with a drive-by downvote by flagging? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
political downvoting unrelated to a question?
I thought i was once advised that if I saw i'd been hit with what looks very much like a drive-by downvoter, like a few downvotes ...
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Why has this question been downvoted?
Based on the fact that it's a specific problem that applies to many people, could be invaluable to those using MediaMonkey, and has no answer anywhere else I was expecting it to get at least a handful ...
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Is there a way to show people why their -1 was wrong?
So my question comes from How to automatically hide files put in a specific folder? Bon Gart was very quick to downvote my answer (be sure to look at it post terdon's edit) Is there anyway, other than ...
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Why was my question about attempting to stop USB viruses downvoted?
I made a question about something I didn't know a lot about: Are dummy autoruns enough for virus prevention?
I asked if something was possible and my question got downvoted for kingdom come. Isn't ...
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Why was question about Windows 7 install downvoted?
Downvotes are for questions from one of the following categories:
zero research effort,
unclear,
not useful.
I'm trying to install Windows 7 and explain the problems I encounter here. I explain ...
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retaliatory down votes
At various times, my questions have received answers not properly addressing the original question, but instead targeted at a different question. Often, the user posting the answer will decline ...
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Why aren't driveby downvoters themselves detected and penalised?
There are obvious cases of driveby downvoters. Why aren't the driveby downvoters penalised?
It may even often be the same person as when it happens it's often three posts at a time that are downvoted....
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what is the purpose of down-voting a question?
I understand the reason for up-voting a question. It is a good question and the results are likely to help someone in the future.
But what is the purpose of down-voting? If the question is bad, ...
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Effect of downvote on reputation
Should downvotes result into bigger reputation loss than -2 ? I believe that compared to +10 for an upvote, -2 is negligible and it would be fair to increase it.
Also, since the community is ...
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Unintended consequence of cheap downvotes and possible solutions
In our pursuit of great answers, we seem to have forgotten that even good questions can start out a little rough, or even very rough.
Downvotes are very common, and based on the comments following in ...
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somebody not justifying a downvote
I posted an answer here, and somebody down-voted it but won't defend his action.
He gave one reason which I replied to, but he won't defend it from there.
In this question here
How can I guess if ...
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The purpose of this community - down-voting and asking questions
Why downvote a question? It causes the user to lose reputation. Why not simply ask the person to restate and/or delete the question? I was told that this community only accepts one question at a ...
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I believe our current system for preventing downvoters is insufficient
I've just become a victim of serial downvoting, or at least I believe so. Some posts of mine from years ago had been downvoted out of the blue, and more recent ones as well. Naturally, this decreases ...
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Why not make it a level playing field? Downvotes of 125+ rep persons on 125- rep persons should not be recorded [closed]
So, downvotes of persons with <75 (or is it <125) reps are not recorded.
May I know Why of this yet another discriminatory rule?
Do less reps take away any fundamental rights of a person ...
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Wouldn't everyone who has a post vote down the other posts?
I see how the answer method works here and on all Stack Exchange sites, but, can someone explain to me why those who have answers to a question can downvote other answers. Doesn't this seem a little ...
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Protect anonymity of 'no comment' down voters - while allowing other users to down vote them
As there are hundreds of comments on the issue of users down voting a question without leaving a comment - I believe it must be a serious issue to many users.
Since some users don't feel it is ...
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Is downvoting a question constructive? [duplicate]
The only dumb question is the one that isnt asked.
Is downvoting questions constructive?
I came across this question today and it had a couple of downvotes before I answered it. This got me ...
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