Questions tagged [down-votes]
Questions specific to downvotes, the community's way of telling peers that their content can be improved. Downvotes on meta sites have different meanings.
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Why do my questions keep getting downvoted? [closed]
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Is it possible to demote "master" to a sub-branch (with its entire structure) and create a new master?
I have noticed that my last few questions both get edited and downvoted. That ...
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How can I stop receiving downvotes from a question that the community is keeping up? [duplicate]
Recently, I read the [help article on bounties][help-center/bounties]. I initially misread the article and asked the following question based on that misunderstanding: https://meta.stackexchange.com/...
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Does downvoting reputation loss get regained when an answer is deleted? [duplicate]
Obviously, reputation is regained when a question or answer is deleted. And reputation is subtracted (-1) on my downvote- as in when I downvote a post.
But what happens if I downvoted a answer, lost 2 ...
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Does the network currently promote "shows no effort" as a good reason to downvote a post?
A little history.
Many years ago the network settled for banning comments to low-effort-questions that contained "Let me google that for you" links in an attempt to be more "welcoming&...
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Question downvotes issues in regards to the points system [closed]
I noticed that recently I am losing reputation points due to a question that gets downvotes. I don't understand how I got the points in the first place, but that's a different story.
I don't want to ...
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What's the benefit of keeping questions around that have negative votes? Isn't it just an embarrassment to the OP?
What's the benefit of keeping questions around that have negative votes? Isn't it just an embarrassment to the OP?
And the OP is discouraged to delete the question if the question has been answered by ...
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Prevent comments when downvoting
There have been numerous posts (here on MSE, on MSO, and other meta sites) requesting some form of explanation with downvotes. Although most curators are quite sceptical that any such scheme would be ...
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Prompt to specify downvote reason but allow to keep downvotes anonymous [duplicate]
Recently @Catija replied to my answer (If more users could vote, would they engage more? Testing 1 reputation voting on some sites) about mandatory downvote reason (especially for 1+ rep users).
“I'd ...
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Do we want the "Voting is different on meta sites" content to match the reality?
This is not a duplicate of A Proposal for More Constructive Downvoting on Meta: Express Disagreement by Answering the Question because this is not proposing changing the Meta Stack Exchange users' ...
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Should downvotes carry MUCH more weight? [duplicate]
With great power comes great responsibility something.
Reputation can in some instances cause leniency and desensitizing to voting, and voting is the voice of the community. It shouldn't be "...
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Don't let me do fake downvote in LQP queue history's review task [duplicate]
I was going through my review history and clicked on a recent review task link: https://meta.stackexchange.com/review/low-quality-posts/86500
Though I had previously downvoted this post, the downvote ...
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When should I ask why a question I asked was downvoted?
Once on Meta, I asked a quite badly received question and then asked why it was downvoted. My question: Why was my question - Why does downvoting mean 'no?' - downvoted? about why my other ...
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Can a single downvote cause a question to contribute towards a Q-ban?
A question ban is much worse than a temporary ban. One question per six months forever, versus just waiting a fixed time and coming back like nothing ever happened.
Only moderators can dish out ...
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Possible solutions to why there is still so much 'attitude' and condescension on S.O. after there's been work to eliminate it
Why does SO have so much attitude and condescension, even after several measures have been taken to eliminate it?
We can and need to do better
Problem: S.O. still has so many people with a bad ...
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Why was my question - Why does downvoting mean 'no?' - downvoted? [duplicate]
I asked this question which ended up with a -7 score.
However, I am puzzled. It seems to be a legitimate question. While I understand that feature requests are downvoted to indicate disagreement, I ...
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