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Why does it require reputation to upvote comments and answers?
I guess it could help with stopping bots from bombing comments with upvotes and such, but it's the only platform I've ever seen that behaves like this.
I created an account a while ago to show ...
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What should I do if I have a downvoted question with upvoted answers?
I posted this question, and it keeps getting downvoted. However, the system won't let me delete it. What should I do about this? Should I vote to close it?
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Does a high score on an answer excuse the requirement to back up the answer?
Existing Guidance
Reviewing guidance on meta and our post notice on main, it seems we put forward as a matter of substantive policy that answers must be backed up and supported, either objectively ...
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What should we do about people downvoting to try and push subcommunities they don't like off this site?
I understand that people are in charge of their voting, and we generally avoid legislating voting in any way as it is fundamentally unenforceable. Nevertheless, the use of downvotes to explicitly ...
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Is it ok to ask for comments on downvotes?
Whenever I post an answer I immediately get downvotes. This always puzzled me as there never seems to be a reason for it.
I tried posting a comment asking if downvoters could please leave a comment ...
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Is it OK to edit an outdated answer to facilitate a vote change?
A rule has been changed, and an answer that was correct became wrong. The recommended course of action is to downvote and wait.
However, downvoting is not possible if you upvoted earlier, because ...
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How can I answer a question really well?
Before you ask, yes, I have read this topic from the help center.
With that out of the way, I would like to ask how to make exemplary answers, that gets everybody to want to upvote your answer.
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How to vote on bad questions asked on someone else's behalf?
Sometimes we see questions that have easily findable, non-ambiguous answers. What makes them interesting is being asked on someone else's behalf.
If this were the whole question:
Does the Dueling ...
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Can/should we do something about early answers getting the lion's share of votes?
Here and at many Stack Exchange sites, there's a tendency for the chronologically first answer to receive the most votes. Once an answer has acquired a lead, it almost always retains that lead. I ...
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Is there a way to thank/upvote someones edits on your Question/Answer?
Just a quick bit of backstory. When I'm posting on Stack sites, I'm typically at work, so unable to devote my entire attention to the post. Quite often, small typos/errors in maths/etc will slip ...
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Can I ask who has a beef with me and why?
Ok, so this meta post isn't so much a "can I ask" but a "I am asking". Though I suppose if meta isn't the place for such a thing then "can I ask" may be worth addressing.
I woke up this morning to ...
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Is serial voting an infraction or anything?
Chemus was kind enough to go through and fix broken links in many questions and answers—lots of them mine—on May 11, 2017, and at least one user upvoted some of those questions and answers—again, lots ...
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What if you agree with an answer, except for one part that is not really on-topic but you find very wrong?
For the context, I am speaking about KRyan's answer to How much money can I make up with class features?.
As it is I completely agree with it, except for the last sentence I find completely wrong. On ...
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Can somebody explain the inconsistent voting on this?
I posted an answer to How to balance/time a campaign where a player character is the final boss?. It was deemed off-topic by the mods and users decided to down-vote it, according to the comments ...
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Should I upvote an answer I agree with even though I feel the one I posted answers it fully?
In regards to this question: Should a player know their mount's exact HP?
I'm hesitant to upvote @fectin's answer. I agree with it completely, but feel it doesn't answer the question as fully as ...
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