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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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Why can't we object to a downvote? [duplicate]
I saw this as a closed question, and maybe I am wrong for starting it up again, but there should be a method for objecting to a downvote.
Please keep in mind, some of us are not the best with "...
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Please close voting system for "feature request" questions or at least replace it with something else
A statement by an SE user:
On meta-, down-votes don't necessarily mean that it is a bad question. Down-votes (on meta) can also signify that you don't agree with the premise.
Well, imagine a feature ...
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Explaining downvotes, a new take on things
We have seen a lot of discussion around explaining downvotes over the years, and not all were well received. We even got to a point that we now have a separate question about why these topics are ill ...
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Ask for confirmation when down voting a question or an answer
When question or an answer is down voted can we have a confirmation popup asking user if they are certain? The same would apply if it was a star rating system when giving a 1 star out of 5.
The ...
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Show popup when trying to downvote a spam post
I know this has been said many times, Don't downvote spam, flag it!, but still spam is being bombed with downvotes, why?
Can we do something to prevent this?
For reference, this post says:
The ...
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Should we discourage gang mentality with a home page deactivation grace period?
The accumulation of votes is never linear, when we instantly remove a question from the active list for reaching a -4 score we create a system whereby only a couple users can collaborate to push a ...
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Why Stack Exchange is no longer a fun place for learning and sharing knowledge, and how we can change this [closed]
I have been a longtime lurker on Stack Exchange, and enjoyed using it as a reference and learning tool.
I am happy to see it grow, but I am increasingly worried about where it's going.
Prompted by ...
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Why does SE force me to permanently lose my reputation for asking a 'bad' question? [duplicate]
This has happened with me many times across the SE network.
For example, someone has downvoted another of my questions for no apparent reason, affecting my 'rep'.
However, SE strongly discourages me ...
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Comment upon down voting a question on stack-overflow [duplicate]
Apologies if this is not the correct platform for asking this. I recently got my question down voted, now under normal circumstances a developer would not just post a question unless they think they ...
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Where does one go if a question is not good enough for Stack Overflow? Stack Site for New Users? [closed]
I have noticed that many questions get down voted or closed so often it's very intimidating for new users. I understand that Stack Overflow is for high quality questions that are helpful to everyone ...
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Does the downvote tooltip on questions contradict site policy?
It has been established in "Embrace the non-Googlers" that we shouldn't be attacking users (especially new users) for asking questions that can be easily answered by a quick internet search.
However, ...
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Badge request for heavy downvoters: punisher [duplicate]
I wonder if there is such a query on stack exchange data explorer queries, similar to this one on user base who cast the most downvotes.
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Voting mechanism for feedback questions [duplicate]
The recent license posts The MIT License – Clarity on Using Code on Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange and A New Code License: The MIT, this time with Attribution Required generated some confusion over ...
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