Questions tagged [down-votes]
Questions specific to downvotes, the community's way of telling peers that their content can be improved. Downvotes on meta sites have different meanings.
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How can I see how many downvotes I received that were eventually undone by the serial voting reversion script across the SE network?
How can I see how many downvotes I received that were eventually undone by the serial voting reversion script across the SE network?
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What causes the difference between score and (upvotes-downvotes) in SEDE?
As far as I can tell, there are some posts in SEDE where you get different number from Posts.Score and different number if you count upvotes and downvotes from the Votes table.
However, as you can see ...
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A (relatively) small share users have contributed a large share of downvotes. Should anything be changed in response?
Final update: I was convinced that while something might need changing, this particular change is not something worth investing any effort into, no matter how much its improved. OG post below. The ...
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How can I find out how a downvote was removed outside of the retraction period?
I usually like to check the amount of down-votes as well as the amount of upvotes, when reading ranked answers. This answer used to have 3 downvotes before, and now it's down to 2 downvotes. It hasn'...
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Auto-downvotes that were caused by helpful VLQ flags on answers aren't undone when the post is later upvoted
For some reason, edits on posts will automatically dismiss any pending very low quality flags as helpful, and also, the system will auto-downvote answers (but not questions) when a pending VLQ flag is ...
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Should downvoting without the 125 rep requirement remove an existing upvote?
If you have 125 rep and downvote a question that you had upvoted the upvote is removed and a downvote is added.
If you don't have 125 rep and downvote a question that you had upvoted then you get a ...
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How does downvote feedback work? [duplicate]
If you don't have the necessary reputation to downvote something on a given site, it'll say:
Thanks for the feedback! You need at least 125 reputation to cast a vote, but your feedback has been ...
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Allow users with the ability to Vote To Delete to always see how many delete votes an answer or closed question has
Users with more than 10,000 reputation on sites with "Full" reputation requirements and 2,000 reputation on sites with "Beta" reputation requirements have the "Access to ...
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What can I do if originally accepted and upvoted answers suddenly got a large number of downvotes? [duplicate]
The last two weeks saw an exceptionally (and to some extent, abnormally, since I'm new to SO and don't have much posts) large number of downvotes to my answers. Most of those answers originally got at ...
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Why does querying for a post with -2000 votes return one with -1?
https://meta.stackexchange.com/search?tab=votes&q=score%3a..-2000, for a reason unbeknownst to me, returns solely How is it possible that "I" (the user Krumelur) exists twice?, which has ...
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Can we readdress the reputation penalty for downvoting answers?
I believe it is time to readdress the penalty to downvote an answer. At one point it may have served a purpose but I don't believe that is true anymore. My motivation comes from search results ...
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How can I stop receiving downvotes from a question that the community is keeping up? [duplicate]
Recently, I read the help article on bounties. I initially misread the article and asked the following question based on that misunderstanding: Why Manually Award Bounties?
This was obviously an error ...
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Does downvoting reputation loss get regained when an answer is deleted? [duplicate]
Obviously, reputation is regained when a question or answer is deleted. And reputation is subtracted (-1) on my downvote- as in when I downvote a post.
But what happens if I downvoted a answer, lost 2 ...
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Does the network currently promote "shows no effort" as a good reason to downvote a post?
A little history.
Many years ago the network settled for banning comments to low-effort-questions that contained "Let me google that for you" links in an attempt to be more "welcoming&...
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Question downvotes issues in regards to the points system [closed]
I noticed that recently I am losing reputation points due to a question that gets downvotes. I don't understand how I got the points in the first place, but that's a different story.
I don't want to ...
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