Questions tagged [down-votes]
This tag is for questions specific to down-votes, the community's way of telling peers that their content can be improved. Down-votes on meta site have different meanings.
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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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What happened with some users reputation today? [closed]
Today something weird happened to my account, I got 4 downvotes on questions in less than 2 minutes.
I thought it had just happened to me, but, when requesting for moderator help on chat, I saw that ...
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minus on down-vote or flagging
I just saw a post, where there were one answer, the answer said something like: "I also need blahblah, can you share project I need please".
I down-voted and flagged it as not an answer this seemed ...
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Is SuperUser Not the Right Place for Visio Questions?
I noticed in checking SuperUser that lots of Visio questions were popular and had multiple answers between 2009 and 2011. However, a quick scan shows that Visio questions asked after 2014 have rarely ...
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What happens when we see "Votes cast by those with less than 125 reputation are recorded, but..."
When casting a down-vote with less than 125 rep you will get the message
Votes cast by those with less than 125 reputation are recorded, but do
not change the publicly displayed post score.
I am ...
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A way to send an alert to downvoters that an edit has been made to the post
Would it be be possible to make something that would alert downvoters of an answer that the post they downvoted has changed?
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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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Feature Request: Downvotes not charged if item is deleted
Scenario: there was an incorrect answer to the question How to take the cube root of a negative number in VBA for Excel? (The answerer had not read the question carefully before replying.) I downvoted ...
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Why did I lose 1 rep after downvoting?
I notice that when downvoting an answer, it says to leave a comment. I -already- left a comment before downvoting. So I don't. I then drop a point in rep.
I imagine that if i'd left a comment after ...
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Answers related to font switching software are downvoted and deleted
I wanted to ask why my answer to my own question was downvoted and deleted here: https://superuser.com/a/409577/89415, it is about switching a font. (I guess now only an admin can see it)
My other ...
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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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Automatic downvote spree detection
Is there an automatic downvote spree detection on SuperUser? I just got a notification that I've gotten downvotes on my answers and quite interestingly they're all at the same time period and for ...
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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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what is the critics badge? i did not down vote any.
Hi,
I got the Critic badge in Stack Overflow. It said it is for down voting. i did not down vote any answers. i accidentally voted and again revoked. How to fine which post i have down voted if i had ...
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Why was my question about "Intentions and security risks of AIM bots" closed?
I've recently made a question at SuperUser about the intentions and security risks of AIM bots and it was downvoted and closed as Not a real question. I've browsed the site guidelines and I'm not ...
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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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Change accidental vote
I accidentally down voted an answer (fat fingers on a small phone) and didn't notice until after it was locked. How can I undo my down vote?
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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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Need insight on down-voted question
I recently posted this question on Java and Linux:
Need latest Java in Linux environment.
It was downvoted, which often doesn't mean much, but I took another look at it because I thought it was a ...
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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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I was serial downvoted, please reverse them
Today I asked a question, it received two downvotes and was closed. Fine, I deleted it.
But right after that, my five most recent posts were downvoted within one minute, for no reason at all. The ...
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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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Why can't comments be downvoted?
Since comment upvotes don't yield any reputation, I'm just wondering why comments can be upvoted but not downvoted. I see a lot of comments with flat out wrong information or unhelpful responses, and ...
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Question is getting downvotes and a close request
https://superuser.com/questions/655201/how-to-mobilize-all-links-with-http-www-google-com-gwt-xu
Why is that happening? And what can I do to it to ask it again in a more acceptable way?
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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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What to do if you cannot see how to improve your downvoted post?
I asked a question a week or so ago, but seems somehow the question was off topic.
I researched services that could fit the requirements:
Web based
Access pages via either HTTP or HTTPS
Will allow ...
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Received 38 downvotes on different posts in 4 minutes [duplicate]
This is my reputation history right now:
These are 38 of my highest-voted questions and answers. Looks like I made some enemies. Could moderators handle this, please?
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Notify on changes on a revised answer [duplicate]
I came upon this Q&A
The least-voted answer, according to the comments, was downvoted because it's a "link-only answer".
(Kind of inconsistent, are we? The highest-voted answer is also a "link-...
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Penalty for unexplained down-votes [duplicate]
Often I come across perfectly valid questions which have been down-voted for no apparent reason, sometimes with no comments or answers at all.
I don't think a down-vote should ever be made without ...
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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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Should question owners be able to down vote on answers?
I have had a few questions with not so good answers. Could it be possible that question askers can down vote (or up vote) on answers to their questions, without rep requirements?
Also, about up ...
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Why is this question downvoted so much?
Why could be a likely reason that this question is being downvoted so much? I tried my best to improve the question (in the Update) but I am still not sure whether this helps.
Is there a way to ...
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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 ...