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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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somebody not justifying a downvote

Users are under no obligation to provide reasons for downvoting, or to justify why they did. I understand there is a bigger group of the community that believes you should justify it, however voting i …
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Why did I lose 1 rep after downvoting?

Down voting on an answer costs 1 rep irrelevant of whether you leave a comment or not. You are under no obligation to leave a comment. The losing of rep when down voting is to prevent abuse of the vot …
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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 be …
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