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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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Is topic-hostile downvoting a thing, and are SE algorithms designed to catch it?
I am well aware that there are endless topics regarding hostile downvoting and how it should be dealt with. I have read a bunch of these threads, but one thing I have never seen raised is persistent ...
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What should I do with my post on logos?
I posted Logos and their representation and it seems like the community doesn't support it:
Now I read the downvote reason, and clearly they voted the question for it being useless. However, someone ...
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Why was my recurring question about suggestions for Winter Bash 2020 received so negatively? [closed]
Recently, I asked Suggestions for Winter Bash 2020, which is a recurring yearly question asking for suggestions about the next year's Winter Bash (or other winter celebration). It is a recurring ...
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Why people are downvoting this question? [closed]
Can anybody please tell me what is wrong with this question?
People are down voting it and I am not getting any comments telling the reason.
Which technology would be good to use to calculate ...
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Reasoning for downvotes and close votes on a question
I have asked this question on SO, and it has accumulated 5 downvotes in as many minutes. I am not going to say that I am infallible, but I do not see the reasoning behind so many downvotes in such a ...
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Can I see why my question got a downvote? [duplicate]
My question got a downvote. Can I see somewhere why this happened?
This is my question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19877894/error-with-pdo-query
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Is it necessary to downvote a question like this? [duplicate]
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19733504/how-can-i-display-something-where-the-users-insertion-point-is-using-javascript
Someone is asking a question about autocomplete options for jQuery. ...
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Why was base 32 question downvoted?
Can you tell me what's wrong with How does Base32 encoding work in Java? please?
I want to edit it so that it can be helpful to the community. I don't think that just anonymously downvoting can be ...
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Why might someone have downvoted this question?
I asked a question about using two different SQL modules in the same Python script.
It already has a downvote, which probably happens, but it doesn't bode well.
There's no code in it, but it is a ...
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Five answers downvoted, without any comment
Me and 4 others answered this question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19081760/php-form-validation-gives-parse-error
(Note: the question deleted)
You can see that all of them downvoted, this is ...
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What is wrong with a question?
On https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18749158/how-do-i-programmatically-shrink-a-background-image-for-an-ios-app , I received a downvote within a minute or two, without a comment on what was wrong ...
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What is the proper way to get constructive criticism about why my question is bad?
I asked this question on stackoverflow. I was getting downvotes so I placed comments asking why the question is bad. Then there was a close vote as too broad. I countered that in a comment too and ...
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Advice on rehabilitating an unpopular Meta question (or not) [duplicate]
I recently submitted an MSO discussion question. In very short order it has been downvoted to the point where it appears on the rogues gallery of downvoted questions (i.e. the last page of questions ...
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Why was my question downvoted this much? [closed]
Consider Stack Overflow question How do sites validate you linked back to them in real-time? (now deleted)
Can someone explain why I received 10 downvotes? I'm asking what sites like mixpanel use to ...
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