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Voting, both in the sense of up or down voting a post, as well as voting to close/reopen or delete/undelete
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The purpose of voting: Teaching users the basics
The main reasons for voting down a question are indicated on the button's hover text. … You say that voting is "not supposed to be used as a mechanism for flagging inappropriate questions", but this is exactly what it's supposed to be. …
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Too many upvotes for poor quality answers
This is all so hypothetical. Let's make it clear:
You can't tell people not to vote up something they see.
You can't tell people what to vote for (i.e. the "usefulness", the "lack of context")
Thu …
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Is there any moderation for users who cast counter-productive votes?
This includes the voting system, which might be deterrent for some, but ultimately also very useful for others (including visitors). You're not the first to complain (does that sound too harsh?) … For questions, however, voting is often a little subjective, and therefore can often seem a bit "random", especially to the OP. …
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Comment vote equilibrium: Ability to vote down
I think we must not forget that comments that are
unconstructive (i.e. obsolete)
offensive
or plain spam
can be flagged for moderator attention anyway. So I guess if you feel the need to downvote …
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Accepted
Is it unethical to ask someone you know to review your posts?
Note that the system regularly checks voting behavior. …
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Accepted
Something not right in the voting system
This definitely doesn't look like voting fraud though, so there is no point in investigating any further. …
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Accepted
If I lose the privilege of voting up, will the votes I already cast be removed?
The only exception, where votes "magically" disappear, is when you use your votes in a non-constructive way, e.g. by only voting for one user, or aggressively downvoting specific users. …
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Reputation cost of downvoting
Jeff initially proposed this in May 2011: Should downvotes on questions be “free”?
Since the community agreed, the proposal was implemented soon thereafter. The rationale behind it is that a questio …
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Accepted
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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