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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 …
7
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Accepted
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.
7
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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 …
6
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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 …
5
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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 …