Questions tagged [voting]
Peer voting on questions and answers is the primary way users gain reputation, and also how many items are sorted when using filters.
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Do we want to volunteer to test the lowered voting privilege?
There is a post in Meta.SE that is seeking some volunteer sites to test an adjustment of voting privilege (currently set at 15 to upvote and 125 to downvote). There are a few changes, but the ...
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Changing vote buttons back to pen nibs
TeX.SE lost its iconic voting icons in The Great Undesign of 2018, while some other sites were allowed to keep their custom voting buttons. That was a very tragic day for the site.
Luckily SO now ...
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Please don't upvote non-answers above a score of -1
I understand that many users of TeX.SE are scrimpy with their downvotes, but please don't upvote non-answers (e.g. comments erroneously posted as an answer) above a score of -1.
As you can (not) see ...
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Down votes when OpTeX is mentioned
It seems that somebody is allergic to OpTeX: Whenever I mention the example using OpTeX then a down-vote occurs. :) I use such examples only if there is a reason for it:
The question doesn't mention ...
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Explanations on why my answer had been downvoted (and removed), but a similar one accepted? Things I can improve?
I saw this question a few days ago:
missing a tick label that has been named
I answered the following, and it got downvoted (3 times), then deleted:
Does this give what you want?
xtick = {-3.14, -1....
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Why can't I upvote posts when my account is new?
To upvote answers or questions I have to have 15 points. To get these I have to first create questions.
I don't understand the reasoning behind this.
Does creating questions make my upvotes more ...
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Don't forget to vote
This is meant as just a gentle nudge to remind people who are pre-disposed to vote but who, maybe, have let it slip a bit to get back in the habit.
A little background for others: this site is, ...
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When is a question upvoted?
It seems like questions are not upvoted sufficiently. In comparison, answers are.
Would it not be fair, to upvote questions automatically by counting the answers and comments, just to make clear, that ...
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Non correspondence between the total votes and the numbering indicated in the orange rectangle [duplicate]
My simple question is this. If the number indicated below indicates the daily votes assigned to me, why do I have three votes remained? So I'll never get to 40 total votes.
Is the problem because I ...
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Is there a way to give anonymous feedback without flagging?
Probably many of you have seen low-quality answers, for which less versed users may not immediately see that the answer is low-quality. A specific situation could be answers to TikZ questions in which ...
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Direct counter for the total daily votes
Is there a direct counter where I can see the total daily votes (40 votes) without the need to subtract from the last vote given yesterday, for example?
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Why do some users not vote often for questions or answers?
Recently I have observed that several users vote very low. Are there, peraphs, any specific reasons that can be made public?
I think we all have 40 votes, why not use them when there are good ...
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Are the upvotes from when we don't have enough reputation to upvote actually lost?
I had made quite a large number of upvotes before recently gaining the minimum 15 reputation points required to upvote, but now I can't see my past upvotes anywhere. This is very annoying because I ...
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Meta.meta: how should the community decide on the thresholds to meta questions?
How should we handle meta questions that ask for a yes/no answer that potentially affect the whole tex.se community and set a threshold on the number of positive (or negative) votes for a clear "yes" (...
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Maximum daily vote: 41 today and 39 yesterday?
Yesterday somehow I can only vote 39 times, and today it has just told me that I have voted 41 times so I'm not allowed to vote anymore until tomorrow:
You can see that by a simple subtraction: ...
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Guidelines for clicking the "upvote"-button/Knowledge test/What is a reputation system worth where people get "upvotes" based on sympathy?
From time to time I see flawed answers in this forum which are not really suitable for accomplishing the task described in the question and which nonetheless get a lot of upvotes.
Therefore I suppose ...
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Reputation on Comment Votes
If our question gets upvotes, we gain our reputation. People think our question is useful or good, so they 'award' us reputations.
If our answer gets upvotes, we also gain our reputation. That means ...
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Poll: which are the "Cinderella" topics?
We all have the feeling that every TikZ post, even the most trivial one, gets a lot of upvotes.
My question is: on the contrary, which are the topics that deserve more upvotes than the ones they ...
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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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Why answer a question that doesn't deserve a vote?
I am surprised that most questions have fewer votes than the answers. It often happens that a question has no vote, or even a negative vote, but the answers have several votes.
As egreg says:
if ...
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Answers that contain the main idea of the accepted answer
A few days ago a new user answered How to set document font to times new roman by command. This answer basically is the same as the accepted answer, just recommending an outdated package (according to ...
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Poll: "wrong" reasons to upvote
From the Help pages:
What is voting up?
Voting up is how the community indicates which questions and answers
are most useful and appropriate.
When should I vote up?
Whenever you ...
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Why does downvoting reduce my own reputation?
I can't understand the reason behind it. By voting I participate on the site and in my opinion, downvoting should not be discouraged like that. There are already all these nice popups on the site ("...
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Why do (top) users on this site have such high reputations?
This is something that I've found vaguely weird about this site for some time: the reputations of top users are insanely high here. Today I got curious and went to other big sites on the network, and ...
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No review when used up votes for a day
I just stumbled over a situation that irritates me. After I used up my 40 votes for a day (I must admit, after voting 31 times I just wanted to earn that Vox Populi badge and actively looked for ...
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Is it possible for moderators to accept an answer?
There are numerous examples of questions on TeX.SX and SX sites where the OP has asked a question, some one has provided at least one complete solution but the OP has not accepted any of the answers.
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Mismatch in counts of Meta Sportsmanship badge
The new profile page reveals how to get the badges ;-)
Well, at least in my case, there is a mismatch for the Sportsmanship badge. (See the screenshot or on my Meta Profile.)
As of now, it says, ...
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Is there a limit on upvotes?
Just curiousity really, but I noticed in the recent days that one of my posts How to influence the position of float environments like figure and table in LaTeX? get plus/minus 10 point votes recently ...
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Why does a downvote change the daily reputation even when the user has not counted upvotes?
Let's suppose a user has reached the 200 daily rep. Every further upvote is not considered because the 200 daily rep has already been achieved.
But if that user has a downvote and no more upvotes ...
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Why vote for the answer, but not the question?
I often ask questions that perhaps get one up-vote, then someone makes an answer that excellently adresses exactly my issue. That answer then gets five up-votes.
If everything was about scoring ...
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Serial upvoting reversed shows incorrect day reputation
I read on the help page
Should I be concerned about reversal statements on my profile?
No, not at all. It's only an indication of reputation change. After all, we can't control the actions of ...
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What limits are there on voting on comments and how do I tell how many votes I have used?
I'm not certain whether something has changed but I don't remember running out of votes for comments in the past. At least, I certainly don't remember running out of them at all often. Then yesterday, ...
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Downvoting by accident - why can't I correct my voting
I have by accident downvoted two questions (due to sloppy fingers on an iPad touch screen).
When I tried to correct the mistake, I got a message that my voting could only be changed if the question ...
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What is the difference between these two kinds of close votes?
We find that we can ask a post to be closed in two ways.
Use the close link under a post.
And cast a close vote in the review panel.
What is difference between the two? How are they recorded in ...
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TeX.SE really are nicer voters
I've heard a rumour, that people on TeX.SE are nicer and more inclinded not to down vote,
where as people on Programmers.SE are the opposite.
The first is true, where as the second is not.
Here are ...
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What is the purpose of the negative score badges?
There are (at least) two badges, which are related to a negative score.
Reversal: Provided answer of +20 score to a question of -5 score
Peer Pressure: Deleted own post with score of -3 or lower
I'...
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My votes on the new community ads get reverted
For the beginning, it's true that I don't like the fact that we use the same community ads again and again. According to that, I've decided that I'll downvote those 2014 community ads that I don't ...
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Undo upvote on a comment in first 60 seconds
Why is it only in the first 60 seconds possible to undo an upvote on a comment?
My arguments against it:
It takes me even more than 60 seconds to compile tex-code on my
old machine.
If the ...
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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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Click anywhere to close this box
I got the message 'Welcome back! If you found this question useful,
don't forget to vote both the question and the answers up.'
To my dismay, I had to click a tiny font instead of having the freedom ...
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How can I have voted 41 times in a day
The voting limits are well known to me and are also well explained on meta.so:
Post votes (votes on questions and answers)
Thirty post votes per day per user (includes upvotes and downvotes)...
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Factors that influence voting
I'm curious about the factors that influence voting.
One of my motivations is the number of '0-score' answers there are. Indeed, even @egreg has one page of '0-score' answers- I find this really ...
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How to find posts associated with voting
In terms of voting, the Meta FAQ mentions:
What does voting mean
here?
Voting here works a bit differently from the main site. On Meta,
voting is often used to express agreement or ...
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Can the message "Don't forget you can mark this answer as the accepted answer" only come up when the waiting period is over?
I upvoted an answer, and a popup appeared with something along the lines of "Don't forget you can mark this answer as the accepted answer". I tried to accept the answer, and then another popup ...
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Up-vote & close as duplicate — good thing to do?
I often see a question that is a duplicate, but the question is well-stated and good in general.
So I ask: is it correct/encouraged/frowned-upon/... to up-vote a question at the same time you vote ...
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Closing questions as exact duplications: 'best practice'
One of the concepts behind the StackExchange model is that questions which have the same underlying basis can be treated as duplicates, so it's possible to have a single place where the answers are '...
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Adding information for upvoted questions and answers per day separately
In my question Why can I only vote 37 times?, Joseph Wright answered that there is a rule saying that I can only upvote 30 answers per day.
Looking in the FAQ I found a short explanation (with the ...
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Up-voted posts in “First Posts” review tool
When using the new review tool for first posts, I came across some questions, that I already up-voted before. So in essence I already did review them.
That means either they should not appear in the ...
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Why can I only vote 37 times?
I just have voted 37 times and wanted to upvote a new answer but I'm not allowed to do. Message: Daily vote limit reached I would understand this if the number would be 40, but 37?
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Why is upvoting comments possible when I ran out of upvotes for questions and answers?
Yesterday it happened that I ran out of upvotes (for questions and answers). But I was able to upvote two (or more) interesting comments.
I thought upvoting a comment reduce the number of free ...
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