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Have posts start at 3 upvotes
I suggest that new posts (questions and answers) should start at +3 votes by default rather than at 0.
This is meant to have no mechanical effect on the website. It is just a psychological display ...
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Hide downvotes past zero for low rep users
Downvotes aren't personal but they can come off as personal to lower rep users that aren't as used to the site and the mechanics of the site.
By making it appear that there is a downvote floor of ...
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Downvoting an answer during review puts user below minimum reputation requirement for reviewing
Recently my account gained the privilege to review questions on Stack Overflow. While doing this, I came across a low quality answer. Following the review instructions, I downvoted the answer and left ...
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Suggestion: Down vote if you have already answer or made comment in a question [duplicate]
I would like to suggest stackoverflow to fix the down vote system.
Currently, someone can be down voted so so so easily by users that they don't know the problem and or the don't answer questions etc....
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Downvote own answer?
When you post an answer, you usually get a couple of votes. But then another user may post a better answer, appearing at the bottom of the page. Of course I then up-vote it, but I sometimes feel like ...
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Fair downvoting [duplicate]
Throughout my experience in the Stack Overflow forum I have noticed something that really bothers me: the downvoting system. It's not that I feel that downvotes shouldn't exist; I simply believe that ...
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Change wording for banner displayed when user doesn't have enough rep to downvote
Earlier today, I was on the site of a Stack Exchange community that I have joined, but don't yet have 125 reputation, so I can't downvote. I wasn't thinking about that when I tried to downvote an ...
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Only One Type of Downvote is not sufficient
There are some very well asked questions but the answer can be easily found. On the other hand, a very poorly asked question might contain some very interesting points in it.
Consider the question:
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Automatically generate comment with link to a "what does downvoting mean?" post when a user with <50 rep has a question downvoted
Problem
People post a bad question, for any of the following reasons:
Not researched
Off topic
Poorly written/formatted
No sign of any attempt to solve problem
Classic help vampire question
etc
This ...
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Votes to delete answers (and grey fonts) for answers on Meta sites
I can understand why answers with a low score have a button to vote for deletion on normal SE sites, but I don't think that's appropriate on Meta sites.
Answers and votes on Meta sites don't have the ...
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Ability to create questions with vote or comment or both disabled
I am sure that many questions are not posted because the user has a fear of downvoters. It is true, because many people give downvotes only because of a small grammar error, or a method of programming ...
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Proposal: after 4 downvotes within first minute, prevent anyone from answering
Whether we like it or not, SO is enabling lazy users:
Lousy question, then somebody delivers the goods.
We need to block the answer box totally, once a question is downvoted a lot. Just allow ...
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Would any other people want to remove downvoting
As far as I can tell downvoting is mostly useless.
For questions the only people who get downvoted are lower rep users, or incredibly stupid questions
most questions that are downvoted get closed ...
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Do not grey-out comments on greyed-out Answers [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
It is hard to read (comments at) a downvoted answer
If an Answer (example) is heavily downvoted, it gets greyed-out, which is fine. The problem is that the punishment is also ...
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Payed-for extra downvotes
You know, sometimes, just sometimes, I feel like some answer or question is deserving of an extra downvote. So wouldn't it be groovy if SO voting worked like a real-world democracy, where you can ...
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