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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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Unintended consequence of cheap downvotes and possible solutions
The problem with requiring "justification" is that the best you can do is either provide a drop list of pre-canned reasons, or a text box. There is no way to force a downvoting user to enter a persona …
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Help me understand a comment and downvote that a user made on my answer
A few observations:
The user who posted that comment may or may not be the person who dropped a downvote.
That user has 1636 reputation, which isn't a whole lot, and is relatively easy to get.
Just …
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Downvote on 'legitmate' answer
Downvotes express opinion. Downvotes are:
Anonymous. Not even moderators can find out who made the downvote.
Not beholden to any explanation or further interaction between the person who dropped the …
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Concept of "conditional" downvotes?
I like your idea, but I would build out the process as follows:
Add a new downvote mechanic with a shaded arrow called conditional downvote with the hover text of this question can be improved to be …
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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.
A question can be downvoted for any reason, or for no reason. However, keep in mind that if downvoting costs you rep, then it also …
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what is the purpose of down-voting a question?
Questions like this are:
IN FAVOR of not closing it:
Specific
Answerable
Topical
Shows some cursory research, or at least tells me what they've tried (in this case, very little)
Shows specific comm …
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Effect of downvote on reputation
Your idea is based on a false premise. The key is that the metric of reputation conflates, by design, answer-writing ability and technical knowledge. By extension, your statement that "we can expect h …
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Should I flag an answer which *tries* to answer the question, but is useless for this *parti...
To sum up consensus while you read the duplicate that I VTC'ed this question with: Answers which are incorrect but do not suffer from being very low quality (spelling/grammar/comprehensibility/level o …
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