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Seeing as downvotes are used to signal that a question is not well written, should you upvote or downvote a poorly written question you've edited?
Vote on the final product
Nobody can stop you from voting how you want but the system has a number of features designed around people changing their votes in reaction to edits. This is why your vote ...
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Can anything be done about prolific blind question bashing?
I've noticed that you have a strong tendency to go on the offensive when anyone makes a comment that you disagree with. You comment-flood them with multiple responses explaining why they're wrong, and ...
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Why is pointing out a plot hole in a question downvoted?
Because pointing out plotholes is boring, and most of us that have been here a while are beyond sick of seeing them, for the following reasons:
Most of them are not plot holes. A "plot hole" is a ...
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Seeing as downvotes are used to signal that a question is not well written, should you upvote or downvote a poorly written question you've edited?
The purpose of voting is to indicate the quality of a post, not as a reward/punishment for a user.
I agree with Laurel's answer, but the above maxim pretty much answers your question by itself.
If the ...
Rand al'ThorMod
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Can anything be done about prolific blind question bashing?
I've downvoted some of your questions but not the ones you mention here. I rarely comment when I downvote because the purpose of downvotes is not primarily to give the OP feedback, it's to give ...
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Shouldn't downvoting uninteresting posts be forbidden?
There are two underlying premises about voting on SE that you need to keep in mind:
The first is that in a crowd-based system (like voting on SE), it's the aggregate and relative results that are ...
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Why was my answer downvoted?
I'm one of the downvoters here, both on the question and the answer.
NB, obviously the whole explanation below only engages me. I'm not speaking for the other voters, who may have other reasons to up/...
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How to handle thuggery?
This Q&A here explains a bit about the serial voting reversal script and links to the more detailed post on meta.SE:
Is this serial voting?
A script runs every day and looks for patterns of ...
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Can anything be done about prolific blind question bashing?
I've given some of your questions upvotes and a few of them downvotes. Most of them I've just been "meh" about, but I tend to skim over a lot of content here. None of that is specific to you, and it'...
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Why isn't a down voted question moved to the top of the front page after editing one of its answers?
The question currently has a score of -13, so its score is too low to be bumped to the front page:
Questions with sufficiently low score will not be bumped when either they or their answers are ...
NullMod
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Do we gain our reputation back if we undo an accidental down-vote?
Yes, but again the reputation change may take time to show up.
Rand al'ThorMod
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Are we allowed to ASK about the reason for downvotes?
It’s certainly discouraged
According to this answer on the main meta site, written by one of our benevolent overlords:
I flag them on sight. IMHO, they are noise at best, and potentially
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Why is my question getting downvoted?
Several people didn't understand your question, as evidenced by the comments and comment upvotes
I don't understand your question. What would it mean for one fictional tank to "be" another ...
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Why was my answer downvoted?
I didn’t downvote but I don’t think it is unreasonable that people have downvoted it. The question asked for a page number, and the only page number provided in your answer was one which you said is ...
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Someone only upvoted my question once I accepted their answer (probably). Is this proper conduct?
You say this:
Then I noticed I gained 2 rep from that question and then plus 10. Apparently, at the same time that I accepted that dude's answer, someone canceled their downvote on my question, then ...
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Why was my question asking for theories downvoted? Why was my answer for same question downvoted as well?
The question.
I downvoted this for a variety of reasons; That it's about mythology rather than science fiction or fantasy, that it's not in the least bit clear that all of the myths about dragons (...
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Can anything be done about prolific blind question bashing?
You keep mentioning "anonymous" down-votes. Of course down-votes (and up-votes for that matter) are anonymous. This prevents a user from attacking those who have down-voted them, this is a basic SE ...
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Someone only upvoted my question once I accepted their answer (probably). Is this proper conduct?
Absent evidence of intentional abuse, people can up or downvote a question or answer however they please, for whatever reason they choose or whatever rationale they personally employ.
While we're on ...
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Are we allowed to ASK about the reason for downvotes?
If your intent is to fix whatever is wrong with your post, then I highly recommend asking what the downvotes are for. There will be some people who reflexively criticize you for it, but there's often ...
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Why was my question asking for theories downvoted? Why was my answer for same question downvoted as well?
I'm the one who responded to the OP in the question at hand.
@TheLethalCarrot: I'll just state for the record that, while I personally find self-answering to be an annoying habit, though not showing ...
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