Questions tagged [down-votes]
This tag is for questions specific to down-votes, the community's way of telling peers that their content can be improved. Down-votes on meta site have different meanings.
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Targeted downvoting: information related to my profile
I would like to find out information about voting behaviour against me on this site (Main and/or Meta). Does such information exist? If so, where can I find it?
For example these are related only on ...
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A different number of downvotes
Into my personal page I have voted down only 4-times.
Why do I have 14 votes down?
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How to deal with an accidental downvote?
I accidentally downvoted an answer that I really meant to upvote, and didn't realize it until it was too late. (The answer not only gives the desired result, but includes a good explanation, so a ...
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Should we really delete low quality answers?
Whenever looking at answers in the Low Quality Posts review queue that are real answers (i.e. should not actually be a comment, edit or new question), just bad ones, I'm a bit conflicted about ...
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Why is this answer downvoted? [closed]
I am talking about this answer. It doesn't work with XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX, because it uses a package which is written by the PDFTeX author and is specifically for LaTeX and PDFLaTeX.
By the time I ...
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In what case should we downvote questions/answers?
I know that we should not downvote all bad questions/answers. So in what case should we downvote those questions/answers?
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Understanding Downvotes
I recently posted an answer. It quickly got two upvotes, and then it got a downvote.
When I see downvotes on my posts (and I've gotten a few), my impression is "oops, I totally misunderstood what ...
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Downvoting answers exploiting different approaches with respect to the initial question
Today, reading Color the faces of a graph I noticed that the OP downvoted Karl's students's answer and g.kov's answer. These answers, actually, do not use TikZ, but show how the picture the OP was ...
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problem with possibly "not an answer" and downvoting
(Question 1 below is about "pure" LaTeX if you are not familar with LyX...)
The TeX.SX question (my interpretation)
Two years ago this question was asked. The title is "Use a quality glossary and ...
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Consistent policy about downvoting and asking the OP to 'show what they have tried'
I was struck by the difference in reaction to two questions that have a lot in common
https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/82894/how-to-build-this-table-in-latex
How to draw a sine wave on a ...
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Strange series downvoting
Two hours ago, several of my answers and questions were downvoted:
So my question is:
was there some kind of reputation recalculation?
does someone really not like my answering/asking style?
is this ...
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Mysterious -2 rep for non-existent downvote to my question
My reputation history shows:
The post it links to, however, doesn't have any downvotes:
Neither is this downvote reflected in my https://tex.stackexchange.com/reputation (a recalc didn't change ...