Questions tagged [upvotes]

I've been an active member of the Stack Overflow community since 2012. At first, I was only asking questions and was reading the answers. I was receiving so much help from community members that after ...

A few hours ago, I posted an answer on a question on the main site. That answer later got 2 upvotes, which is showing next to the answer itself (red text and drawings are my own): ... but observing ...

I noticed this new user's posts had a surprising number of upvotes, but the user only has 9 reputation points. This is what their reputation pane shows: What's going on here? Why do all but one of ...

I posted this answer yesterday. Today I see it has 2 upvotes but in the top-right achievements/reputation notification, it only showed +10 instead of +20. I checked my rep history on my profile (TIL ...

In the past few days, I've noticed that just about all spam posts in Discussions have an upvote, some multiple (I guess I could link to a specific one but it will very quickly be deleted and then you ...

I always upvote Q/A's to serve as a breadcrumb to myself. If I see an upvoted Q/A, I know I encountered that problem before and found the Q/A helpful. With that in mind, it would be nice to have a ...

When doing a suggested-edit, the goal is to improve a post to such a degree, so that there is a good question/answer in the end. Good posts should be reflected in the score. Therefore, I propose that, ...

When I upvote a SO question, the upvote indicator background adopts a strong brown color. That didn't use to be the case. Why does brown make sense? Why was this change made? Considering one of the ...

I am a new user and I cannot tell you how bad I wanted to comment on posts. When I finally unlocked the privilege to vote and comment I was so happy. I want to upvote posts for new users so that they ...

If I appreciate the effort and scope of an answer but cannot verify its correctness, and I am not the asker, is upvoting the answer a correct thing to do? For example, I came across this post. I might'...

I have a repeated issue and I have to find an answer which I marked as helpful (upvoted). My upvote activity shows nothing under this link: https://stackoverflow.com/users/current/?tab=votes&sort=...

I understand that normally one upvote would reward 10 reputations to user, however, I noticed that when I clicked into the reputation tab under my profile after getting upvotes, the reputation ...

Would it be possible to have somewhere the information on when we upvoted or downvoted a post (in case of post was edited by OP or someone else)? For example, see the tooltip below. It's a feature I'...

When answering a question on Stack Overflow and the other Stack Exchange sites, I usually upvote both the question, as well as any other answers on the question that correct and working. My reasoning ...

I've seen this a lot on my own answers, where they have been accepted but received 0 upvotes. Is there a reason why this is possible, and not just automatically upvoted on accept? On the other hand, ...