Questions tagged [votes]

Question 1

So I got my first random upvote on an old answer in May which was cool, but this(2 upvotes, not the accepted answer) is not the answer I would have expected to get that. Then I got another one in June,...

Question 2

Today I checked CV and saw that I lost 270 reputation (and the associated marks towards badges) based off serial voting. I'm confused how this can be possible. Surely I would have noticed someone ...

Question 3

My question was closed for lack of enough detail and no private feedback was provided as to what detail is exactly missing, which is not how I read it is supposed to be. Even though I cannot think of ...

Question 4

My question is simple theoretically, but probably not so simple practically... Is there a way to check the distribution of question votes vs answer votes on CV? My assumption is that people are more ...

Question 5

SO is looking for some sites where they would experimentally lower the rep requirement for voting to 1. Do we want to volunteer? I would suggest up- and downvotes on this question to stand for "...

Question 6

I just downvoted a post (now deleted) by a new member who has a reputation of one. Downvoting cost me some reputation, but it also cost that user some reputation, or at least it would have if that ...

Question 7

TL;DR The system promotes popular questions, but popular might not need to align with characteristics that are desirable. Especially complex and difficult questions might be very desirable, but ...

Question 8

In a discussion with an ex-user of the platform, I noticed how some policies of the platform are too harsh, and hence users do not have a pleasant experience, especially for those who are new to ...

Question 9

Some time ago I decided to employ a policy for upvoting the questions: When I answer the question, it means that it was worth answering, so I automatically upvote it. There are some minor exceptions ...

Question 10

UPDATE: While the testing period has ended, this change has been well-received by the community so we have opted to not reset the votes needed to close/reopen to 5 while we look at data. Please let me ...

Question 11

Currently, it takes 5 close votes from users with the vote-to-close privilege ($\ge3000$ reputation), or 1 vote from a moderator, to close a question. If the question is being closed as a duplicate ...

Question 12

It is known that CV has a large and growing number of unanswered questions. If that is to improve, increasing the number of people who answer questions and/or help clean up (downvote, edit, comment) ...

Question 13

Without calling anyone out, I suspected someone of downvoting other answers than their own just to have theirs appear higher/attract more upvotes. However, I wasn't sure how to report this and more ...

Question 14

I see a lot of programming questions here. I remind people that programming questions are off-topic here, that they could be useful for Stack Overflow, and that the requirements are a minimal working ...

Question 15

Think I am experiencing a weird stalk-upvoting behaviour this week. Every day I see 2-3 of my old answers being upvoted. And the upvoting started from the lowest-score answers (that had 0 score) and ...

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Questions tagged [votes]

Increase in random upvotes on old answers over the last months

Serial voting reversed

How to request reason for closing

Distribution of question and answer votes on CV

Do we want to volunteer for the alpha test on lowering rep requirements for voting?

Downvoting a new member

How to improve attention to interesting/advanced, but complex/difficult, questions?

Is this platform losing significance?

My upvoting policy

3-vote close - how's it going?

Should we reduce the vote threshold for closing questions?

Are new answerers feeling like they "speak into the void"? And can we help?

Irregular voting patterns

Community moderating vs systemic attacks

Someone upvoting my old answers at a rate of 2-3 per day [duplicate]

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