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Remove condition of having minimum 15 reputation for upvotes
I applaud your desire to upvote those that have helped you. Sadly SPAM and other nefarious activities are a sad fact of the modern internet. So these limits are in place. But it turns out your idea ...
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Voting on questions. When should you give a upvote
Upvote button hover text:
This question shows research effort; it is helpful and clear
The fact that someone answers a question does not, de facto, make it a good question. Questions may have ...
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Many times I "forget" to give (deserved) upvotes, because I would have to scroll up again
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Why do well received questions often score early down votes?
I'm just speculating, since of course an actual answer could only come from... a committee of downvoters. And I may be thinking about the wrong examples, since you didn't provide any in your question.
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Why do we have downvotes?
I would answer your question with your own words:
We downvote because we don't see any value in someone's contribution. That is obvious. It's there for all to see.
In general, votes are for rating....
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inform about edits after downvotes
it would be nice to be informed of edits to a post which one has downvoted
I had a similar thought, and chased it down through various Metas, eventually landing at Stack Apps: Get a list of posts you'...
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Why do well received questions often score early down votes?
In my opinion, I think there's a semi-active user that is exercising their right to vote and is doing so on some criteria that obviously doesn't align with 16+ other voters. It's the disparity of that ...
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Will my previous votes increase the publicly displayed post score after I achieve 15 reputation?
No, you would have to cast the vote again after you reach 15 rep, since your vote wasn't actually a full/normal vote. See Once I reach 15 reputation, will my old votes be taken into account? for more. ...
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Why does Unix.SE give me this message and no other SE sites do?
From here
This isn't a bug, this is by design:
Welcome back! If you found this question useful, don't forget to vote both the question and the answers up.
only appears if
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Why do we have downvotes?
If anything, downvotes on answers are more important than upvotes. Downvotes are the only way we have of indicating that an answer is bad. "Bad" could mean anything from inelegant, through not ...
terdonMod
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Moderators accepting answer on behalf of lost users
Moderators cannot accept or unaccept answers on behalf of other users, no matter if that other user is registered or unregistered, a "newbie" or a "veteran".
There are many reasons ...
KusalanandaMod
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Why do we have downvotes?
A point, that @terdon (+1) alludes to, but that doesn't across clear enough: Down-votes are essential to make some answers disappear, (imho)
Especially among the older questions there are some really ...
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Why do well received questions often score early down votes?
You didn't cite any examples, but I suppose many of those are basic questions that receive a few "you idiot, why don't you know this?" downvotes in the beginning, and then hit the Hot Network ...
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Why answer a question not worth your upvote?
I sometimes do not upvote if I feel there is a missing detail which should be added to the question. In particular, I sometimes comment that the question should specify the exact distribution and ...
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