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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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Policy on +1 comments

It's not the +1 that is (potentially) problematic, but the content of the comment. Comments should constructively add to the post in some way, so +1 awesome post dude you rock! .. doesn't, where …
Jeff Atwood's user avatar
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Bug in the calculation of upvotes for specific tags

Ah, good point. I removed all the duplicate tags across the SE 2.0 network just now. We should probably change tag renaming and merging so it doesn't create duplicate tags on posts.
Jeff Atwood's user avatar
7 votes

Downvoting old, weak questions

Note that closing questions as "Not a Real Question" or "Off Topic" (not migrated) incurs a downvote from the community user. So even if you don't downvote, closing questions with those two specific …
Jeff Atwood's user avatar
6 votes

Downvoting duplicates?

Please note that certain close types get an automatic downvote from the community user: off-topic not a real question I don't feel a duplicate question is deserving of a downvote, unless it is of …
Jeff Atwood's user avatar
5 votes

Does it really take 15 rep to upvote an answer to your own question?

If you put your game theory hat on, I hope it's easy to see how allowing this would allow massive reputation-based exploits. Anyway, it's sort of intentional that solutions be vetted by a third party …
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