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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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Why aren't driveby downvoters themselves detected and penalised?

Driveby downvoters are detected and penalised by the system. The rollback event not always appear to be on schedule when collating the evidence, for reasons of timing, but they are all caught. Howeve …
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Is there a way to show people why their -1 was wrong?

Wrong can be subjective, so not really. You can edit your post to address/correct the issue if there are comments saying why it might be wrong. Or can leave a comment as a heads up. These are pretty …
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Is downvoting link only answers acceptable?

If you down vote, which would be a reasonable action, they'll just whine all the way in their wah-wah-wah-bulance about how the link has the information or that it's a valid solution. Even if this is …
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Feature Request: Downvotes not charged if item is deleted

Deleting a question now triggers an automated reputation recalc - so the if a post gets deleted; the votes are removed and your reputation should recalc and restore automatically. You can also run a …
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