As the title asks: Which question is the most heavily downvoted on our site?
If someone knows of a script that measures this, then by all means point it out to me :-)
As the title asks: Which question is the most heavily downvoted on our site?
If someone knows of a script that measures this, then by all means point it out to me :-)
I've forked "Most Downvoted Answers" to show the most downvoted questions.
The top 5 (at the last edit)
1) What is “DON'T PANIC” a reference to on the dashboard of Elon Musk's car? (71 downvotes)
2) Is Captain America gay? (48 downvotes)
3) Has George R. R. Martin described the color of Daenerys' pubic hair in any book? (40 downvotes)
4) What is JK Rowling “bad” at? (36 downvotes)
Joint 5) What is Hermione Granger's ethnicity? (32 downvotes)
Joint 5) Why do castle gates in GoT open inwards? (32 downvotes)
Joint 7) Was Bilbo's sexuality ever referred to by Tolkien? (30 downvotes)
Joint 7) What is Kylo Ren's relationship with Darth Vader? (30 downvotes)
Joint 9) If Darth Vader is Luke Skywalker's father, who is Luke's mother? (29 downvotes)
Joint 12) Did Draco Malfoy sexually assault Hermione Granger? (26 downvotes)
Joint 12) In The Matrix, why did humans scorch the sky to block sunshine?(26 downvotes)
Joint 12) Why are most of the main characters White/English in Game Of Thrones?(26 downvotes)
You can also see the lowest number of votes on aggregate (e.g. upvotes and downvotes) using the standard vote sort tool.
In that case, the order is
1) Is Captain America gay? (-37 = 48 down, 11 up)
Joint 2) What is Kylo Ren's relationship with Darth Vader? (-26 = 30 down, 4 up)
Joint 2) Has George R. R. Martin described the color of Daenerys' pubic hair in any book? (-26 = 40 down, 14 up)
Joint 4) Did Draco Malfoy sexually assault Hermione Granger? (-24 = 26 down, 2 up)
Joint 4) If Darth Vader is Luke Skywalker's father, who is Luke's mother? (-24 = 29 down, 5 up)
Joint 6) Was Voldemort an idiot? (-23 = 25 down, 2 up)
Joint 6) What's the in-universe explanation for the change of face of Bruce Banner? (-23 = 26 down, 3 up)
You can use the Stack Exchange Data Explorer to do this kind of thing:
SELECT TOP 10 PostId, COUNT(*) AS [Count]
FROM Votes v
INNER JOIN Posts p ON p.Id = v.PostId
WHERE v.VoteTypeId = 3 AND p.PostTypeId = 1
GROUP BY PostId
ORDER BY 2 DESC
The most heavily downvoted question (that has not yet been deleted) is post 114500 with 40 downvotes; that post is: