Questions tagged [down-votes]
This tag is for questions specific to down-votes, the community's way of telling peers that their content can be improved. Down-votes on meta site have different meanings.
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Is it me or is it crazy that 70% of the questions on the main page were downvoted at least once?
It's me or is it crazy that 70% of the questions on the main page were downvoted once? I am not sure why this is OK, I think there's a serial downvoter who just downvotes every question for the sake ...
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Should we force people to tell you why they downvoted a question?
What do you call this input, terminal device?
Should we force people to tell you why they downvoted a question? Some people seem to downvote people for personal reasons. I feel a reason should be ...
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Are we getting grumpier? A call for a gentler touch
I am a wee bit concerned that -- and I may simply be imagining this -- the amount of downvoting of questions seems to have increased recently. Whenever I look in the list of Questions, it seems like ...
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Unjustified downvoting even on a question earning three badges, notable question, nice question & popular question
I post questions and give answers on ELL & EL&U. But serial downvoting on some good questions is really disappointing. A moderator should downvote a question or an answer which, he thinks, is ...
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Why should question contain incorrect source be downvoted?
Why can "core" be a plural form of "core"?
This question receives 3 downvotes. One of the downvoter says that because it contains incorrect source. But even so, then why doesn't it show any research ...
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Incorrect reputation history
There's a strange thing going on with my reputation history. On June 30th, I supposedly voted down an answer. I can't remember if I did; it links to this answer and in any case I'm able to downvote it ...
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How can I find out what I did wrong?
I logged in this morning, to find that I had somehow accumulated 8 down votes on a single question. The activity page says that the question has been deleted.
I am new to this site, and eager to ...
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Rating negative before commenting?
Ok, so today I got one of my answers rated negative because something was wrong on it.
Perhaps, before immediately rating negative a post, a comment should be posted to edit it. (Like a suggestion.)
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I received 9 downvotes in one minute? What happened?
Take a look at my reputation. I received 9 downvotes in just a matter of a minute or two.
Do you think it is the right behavior for any member?
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Why does downvoting reduce our reputation by a point or two?
The downvoting is surely encouraging for a person whose answer is not up to the mark because the comments from reputed authors here give good opportunity to learn and overcome misunderstanding, if any....
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Reasons for downvoting
Regarding downvotes, I think its helpful for the writer to understand why he/she was downvoted.
There may be a legitimate reason that will help the writer in future posts. Its also respectful to ...
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Excessive downvotes
What can you do against excessive downvotes?
In the picture below the votes from today are shown.
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