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Why do ELL posts need to be edited before reversing a downvote to an upvote?
This is not something we can reconsider as English Language Learners; it's a network-wide feature known as vote lock. That answer on Meta Stack Exchange provides some rationale behind this decision:
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How are answers with no votes sorted?
Answers with equal scores are randomly sorted according to How are answers with the same vote score sorted?
Accepted answers are at the top, unless the author of the question accepted their own ...
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On user vote questions, do we count the net votes including downvotes, or just the upvotes?
The post says
upvote the answer representing your choice (downvotes will not count)
The reason for this 'rule' is that while most users with a minimal amount of participation are able to upvote, but ...
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Only top scored, non community-wiki answers of a minimum length are eligible