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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?
Thanks, your intuition was correct. Moderators can't see more than regular users do in this case, but I've escalated the issue to staff, they've found a pattern and corrected these votes where ...
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We aren't doing our jobs
I agree that it's a civic duty to downvote or comment on bad/incorrect answers.
Still, I think your title seems a bit reactionary and alarmist. Just because the downvote totals on a few answers aren'...
J.R.Mod
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I received 9 downvotes in one minute? What happened?
In the case of serial downvoting (one downvoter who downvotes the same account over and over again), as was said in the other answer, those are usually detected by a script and eventually reversed. ...
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Couldn't something be done to stimulate voting at the English Language Learners site?
I disagree with quite a few of your sentiments.
Here's what I've learned after about 5 years on the Stack Exchange, mostly in language forums:
1) Don't expect there to be a proportional ...
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(Adding alt text to images is important to make the site accessible, and helps the answer be useful when the image is inaccessible for some reason. Add a ...
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Couldn't something be done to stimulate voting at the English Language Learners site?
It is unclear if you are criticising questioners or answerers, or both.
Very few on-topic questions are left unanswered in ELL. If some questions receive only one answer, it may be because they are ...
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I received 9 downvotes in one minute? What happened?
Not everything deserves a meta post.
There's a script at place that reverses this bizarre trend of voting. C'est la vie.
Highly related posts on meta, which suddenly make me tired:
Serial ...
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Flaws in the voting model in re. questions
Isn't there anything we can do to prevent the occasional elevation of questions whose popularity is based as much on their subject matter as on their value to the learner? For instance, can we provide ...
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Flaws in the voting model in re. questions
Things that factor in to my up-votes:
Was this question or answer useful and/or interesting to me?
Was it easy to understand and read?
Can I imagine this question being helpful to other visitors to ...
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Does a commentator benefit from comment upvotes?
Comment up-voting is to indicate that you agree with or like the comment. It doesn't give the author of the comment any benefit except to count toward the Pundit badge. Its primary purpose it to give ...
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