Questions tagged [voting]
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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Revoking flags and close votes
I'd like to be able to revoke my own flags and close/reopen votes.
Since it can take quite a while for question votes to accumulate, the questions often change in the meantime. The same applies to ...
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Negative up-vote/down-vote ratio: is it effective mentoring, or too harsh?
Voting on the questions and answers within the Super User community has often been a lively topic of discussion. Our voting tendencies are deemed important enough that during past Super User ...
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The purpose of voting: Teaching users the basics
It's come to my attention that users, even established users, aren't actually aware of many of the basic tenets of this website. For example, Voting. I was recently informed by a 2K+ user that "down ...
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What does "too localized" really entail?
Having just received the ability to vote-to-close questions I have seen the option of "Too localized".
At what point is the question deemed to be too localized? I personally have asked questions ...
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How do I cast my 31st vote?
I just cast 30 votes, all on answers. I then tried to vote on some questions, and was denied, with the message “Daily vote limit reached”. I thought I was allowed an additional 10 votes on questions ...
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Community Voting System to accept answers not accepted by the OP [duplicate]
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Community bumping [status-completed] on meta.SU?
I have noticed a lot of questions that are answered correctly and abandoned by the OP (i.e. they are not marked as accepted by ...
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Why is the voting on SU so negative?
Why is the voting on Superuser so negative?
After looking around at other Exchange Sites, I've noticed this website is the harshest site to gain reputation. Perfectly good questions get down-voting ...
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Too many upvotes for poor quality answers
I recently complained over at Meta.Programmers that they were upvoting poor quality and often times very short answers. But I also keep an eye out for SU's hottest questions and I see exactly the same ...
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What is the correct procedure to mark as a possible duplicate?
Is there some other method to mark questions as possible duplicates than casting a close vote (requiring 3k rep)?
When I see some obvious duplicates, should I add a comment or flag for moderator ...
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Change accidental vote
I accidentally down voted an answer (fat fingers on a small phone) and didn't notice until after it was locked. How can I undo my down vote?
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Why is voting and commenting still allowed after a question is closed?
What I know is closing a question means it's not appropriate to ask it in the community.
That's why it's closed, but is it fair to continue voting for such closed questions? Whether it's up or down ...
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