Questions tagged [voting]
Peer voting on questions and answers gives users most of their reputation, and also usually controls how posts are sorted to the top.
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Receiving multiple prompts to vote in an election, even though I already voted
I've received 2 prompts to vote in Stack Overflow moderator election, even though I've already voted. I'm clearly not the only one with this.
Is this related to the fact that only 10% of voters got ...
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Why can’t new accounts upvote questions/answers? [duplicate]
I get why some actions on StackExchange (and its related sites) are restricted to a certain reputation level, in order to prevent spam. However, up-/downvoting questions seems like having only a minor ...
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Add a minimum amount of edits to lift vote locks
As of right now, there is a time limit of 5 minutes after a vote is cast that locks it, preventing it from getting retracted. This is to prevent tactical downvoting.
That is, until the post is edited. ...
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Allow regular users to vote to lift a user's suspension
Allow regular users to vote to lift a user's suspension.
Rationale: SE is supposed to be moderated by the community as much as possible.
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"Hang on, you can't upvote just yet." -- so is my vote saved or not?
I've been using the forums for years, and I've always been prompted "You can't vote but your vote is saved" or something similar when I've upvoted a question or answer. It was reassuring ...
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Has anyone calculated the votes per view ratio for questions on each Stack Exchange site? [duplicate]
I've noticed the votes per view ratio for each question appears to be extremely low on most Stack Exchange sites.
Has anyone calculated the votes per view ratio for each Stack Exchange site?
If so, is ...
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Don’t choose to remove all votes from frequent voters with many useful votes
Recently, a longtime user deleted their account. The user in question had more than 42,000 votes on MSE alone, and therefore the decision to invalidate all their votes must have been made by SE staff. ...
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Ability to Modify the Vote once you realize that you are wrong [duplicate]
I downvoted the answer and left a note explaining the downvote.
The author of the answer replied to my note explaining why I am wrong. Unfortunately, I am now unable to remove my downvote because 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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Why is the 'double upvoting' error only triggered with comments?
My recent bug question, Upvoting/downvoting a post more than once doesn't display an error, wasn't taken too well, implying that the 'double upvoting' error* only applying to comments, and not posts, ...
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Is there a reason not to include deleted posts in my up/down votes tab even if I have 10k+ tools?
I have noted that if you have 10k+ tools, then close/reopen/delete/undelete votes on deleted posts are shown in your votes tab with a red background, but not up/down votes. Without 10k+ tools, no ...
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Why I see Vote action on every questions/answers? [closed]
I have no idea why this happens; did I accidentally turn on a setting somewhere? It should display the total of up votes and down votes. Now I have to click on Vote to see ... the votes. Is there any ...
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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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Votes cast statistic is unclear [duplicate]
Here is the votes cast statistic on my StackOverflow profile:
It says I have voted 4 times this month but 8 times this week. How is that even possible? Does the statistic account for all votes ...
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What is a pre vote?
As seen in
New Vote Types in latest data dump?,
some new vote types appeared (likely) exclusively in the Stack Overflow data dump. A couple users helped find out what each one meant. However, what ...
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