Questions tagged [voting]
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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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Can the system let a serial voter know he or she shouldn't?
I've been observing the following voting pattern on some of my older posts:
A larger number of older posts is being upvoted once (+10)
A few days later, I get a message "Serial voting reversed&...
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Varying limit of votes per day
The help center states:
You can vote on posts 30 times per UTC day, plus 10 more times on questions only.
However I find that to not be true. The other day, I did get a message banner that I have ...
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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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Is there a way to change your vote when you think better of it?
I have some answers that I voted on when I had a different understanding of the rules from what I have now,or feel that I was too harsh in downvoting. Rereading them, I believe my original vote was ...
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Is there a way to find out which user was removed, and when are their votes reverted?
I got a message this morning about reputation changes, stating they were due to a user being removed. However, there is no information which user that was. Is there any way to find out?
Also, this Q&...
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Are un-upvotes lowering the rep ceiling?
I have a weird behaviour in SE today, where my daily Rep seems capped at 190, not 200:
It's not clear to me what causes this behaviour, but earlier today, someone unupvoted a vote:
Is that expected ...
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What is the time/protocol for enacting a meta decision?
When putting answer here, often you get responses, sometimes not or only after a longer time frame. In general there is a lot less traffic on meta than on the main site, and responses can be slow in ...
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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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Why there is no notification for getting a downvote?
While a positive reputation increase (received upvote, accepted answer, association bonus...) is immediately notified, why a negative score is not notified at all? If you receive some upvotes and some ...
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Should we be able to retract answer downvotes after a question is reopened? [duplicate]
in this question, the querent didn't originally attach a system, and someone answered before the question was closed.
I downvoted the answer because we didn't have the appropriate information.
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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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