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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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Is it sometimes too easy to identify a downvoter?
You say somebody downvoted your question and added a comment at the same time. If it's clear and obvious from the comment that they didn't understand the question and therefore downvoted, what's the p …
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Why aren't driveby downvoters themselves detected and penalised?
What you call an "obvious" case isn't that obvious. While it might be the same user, three downvoted questions in succession isn't much.
Think about the following scenario: You see a bad answer. You …
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Change accidental vote
Votes can only be undone when the post is edited. If your vote really was accidental, you can resort to editing the post and then changing the vote.
However, try and make the edits substantial — espe …
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What to do if you cannot see how to improve your downvoted post?
Your question was simply off topic for Super User and has now been migrated to Web Applications.
Looking at your previous questions, I don't see a convincing reason to prevent you from posting. You d …
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Wouldn't everyone who has a post vote down the other posts?
First of all, yes, the system allows you to downvote any post, regardless of whether you're involved answering the same question. But no, this is not a problem. If somebody was really going on a downv …
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Is there any moderation for users who cast counter-productive votes?
First off, one job moderators have to do over and over is explaining people that they shouldn't care about the occasional downvote. Because it really does not matter. From all the experience I've gath …
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Suspicious downvote pattern
TL;DR: To be honest, I don't see anything too suspicious about it. Remember that voting is highly subjective. Reasons why it's probably normal and why you shouldn't worry:
The votes occurred on diff …
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Why was my question about "Intentions and security risks of AIM bots" closed?
I think this is a borderline case. I probably wouldn't have voted to close. It apparently doesn't violate any rule, as far as I can see.
But, in some way the question is very broad (you could talk f …
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