Questions tagged [down-votes]
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What's wrong with this answer?
Which rules (if any) make this answer:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/665367/232326
Invalid, or, at least, wrong ?
Just shocked to get 3 downvotes so quickly for a perfectly correct (IMO) answer. If ...
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How can I improve my answer?
Few days ago I answered a question. It had been downvoted. So, I just deleted it. However, today I am feeling curious (so I undeleted it). Can anyone please check and let me know what is wrong with ...
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Why do we have downvotes?
Having prepared a post on uncommented downvotes I was directed to previous discussion (thanks for the pointer @jeffschaller), but having read through a selection of these I was left with an even ...
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Top answers downvoted at the same time. Someone with an axe to grind?
My four top rated answers at Unix & Linux got downvoted, apparently within minutes of each other.
Here is a screenshot.
I don't really mind it, as it doesn't practically affect my reputation... ...
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need help improving a question
At some point I had a question about the workings of the bash shift command. I did not find the question / answer on this website, so I looked up the answer and posted my learnings as self answered ...
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Downvoting answers to questions asked like "do my homework"
Do answers to questions that didn't come with attempts, and are just like "do my homework", deserve a downvote?
Example:
Filtering out numbers that have sequential- consecutive or non-...
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Why did I get down-voted for the first question that I posted and what can I do to improve
Have a look at this question. It got down-voted for reasons known only to Gandalf. At least I would like to know why I got down-voted and what can I do to improve it?
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"Teaching how to fish" considered abusive?
My comment on this question:
idownvotedbecau.se/noresearch, idownvotedbecau.se/noattempt - Have you consulted the tar man page?
Reaction:
Given that the answer is not in the tar man page, why ...
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Should we be allowed to change our vote on an answer, if we ultimately go back and mark it as "the" answer?
I recently posted a question, and was given an answer almost immediately. Initially the answer didn't seem to solve my problem, and I couldn't get much clarification on the answer, so I gave it a down ...
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Is it really that bad?
So this answer seems to be especially scary to some folks. Now it is not the only answer I have given that has a negative score (it happens, along with a bunch that have no score), there are five ...
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I got a down-vote I really disagree with and flagging it was probably a mistake
I asked a question some time ago which got mixed response.
I edited the selected answer(myOwn) and short time after I got a down-vote on it which pisses me off because I feel it's a good answer and ...
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why is my question downvoted?
I have this question but don't know why it's downvoted, I really searched , nothing on google says about calligra on xfce.
I'm a new linux mint user, I don't know much about desktops(I only tried ...
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Somebody downvotes my old answers en masse and without any reason
Is that normal? Should I take some action on it? How to figure out who is it?
https://unix.stackexchange.com/users/68714/gena2x?tab=reputation
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Should I vote down a question if it frustrates me?
Why someone can be so frustrated to vote down a question like this:
How can I make "bind" command to work in sh shell
I have some doubt about it:
It is not a valid question?
It is a span?
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inform about edits after downvotes
You can change your vote for a question (or answer) after it has been edited. Quite often at least questions improve soon (because the questioner is told that the question is bad and what information ...
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