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Why is this disliked?
The primary problem that I have with that question is that I find it unreadable. You wander off talking about crime and then start talking about a young man getting paid to go places and be good ...
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Upvoting while avoiding irregularities
I'm pretty sure that what you have in mind is just fine.
What the system does look out for, though, is a large number of votes given to the same user. Such voting can be reversed, either ...
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Is this a case of vote fraud?
It might (or might not) be less-than-honest voting, but that wouldn't qualify as vote fraud even if it all came from the same voter. When Stack Exchange talks about vote fraud they mean targeting ...
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How to deal with changing close-vote reasons
To make thing worse, each user has a single close/reopen vote. Once it is cast, it's gone.
This rules out the possibility of reopening because no longer too broad and then closing because primarily ...
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Why is this disliked?
This hit too close to our actual world and seemed to be some sort of sly remark on some current celebrity rather than an actual World-building question. While I don't love the implications, and I ...
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Should we encourage voteup upon answering?
Bumping this one! There are questions that get lots of answers but few upvotes: like this sweet one. When I found it there were 7 answers and 0 votes.
Is there a plausible way to build a pipette ...
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Why do I have so few votes?
Looking at your profile shows that you have voted 34 times today as of writing this. You can see this in the lower right hand corner on the desktop version.
The thing about votes is that you don't ...
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Do we have a troll in our midst?
This sort of phenomenon has been referred to as drive-by downvoting, and people have been annoyed by it for years and years.1 It happens across the network, and over time, people have tried to put up ...
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"Serial voting reversed" - meaning and response?
Serial voting is explained briefly in the Help Center. It can happen with upvotes or downvotes cast in rapid succession on posts from the same user. Sometimes this happens for benign reasons -- ...
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Ethics of voting for low-rep users?
No.
Because it doesn't help them. Praising crap will only get you more crap. If you want to help them, post a helpful comment. An anonymous upvote is as not helpful to your cause as an anonymous ...
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Questions with multiple answers but still flagged as off topic, too broad, or down voted
Downvotes and flags/close-votes operate on different axis
A downvote indicates that a question is not helpful, doesn't show research effort or that you simply don't like the question. Yes, that is a ...
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Why is it allowed for users to down-vote a question that is already closed?
Question is still there, so it can be voted on.
Downvotes and close votes are tangential to each other. Close votes are about "Should this question really be here? Is it answerable?" and votes are ...
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Good answers to bad questions, a voting issue
If the question is off-topic or otherwise unsuitable then it should be closed
Sometimes we get bad on-topic questions to which good answers can be given, but we shouldn't* encourage off-topic ...
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How can I cancel an up-vote or down-vote?
To retract an upvote or a downvote, just click within 5 minutes from the previous vote the same vote button. This will retract the vote.
Past the 5 minutes the vote is locked and can be changed only ...
L.DutchMod
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How fast can I vote to avoid the system thinkig that I'm a bot?
Votes shall be given to the post, not to the user behind it. Targeted voting is forbidden and punished. That is to say, if you give 40 votes to the same user, that will rise more than an eyebrow.
Also ...
L.DutchMod
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Closing hurdle for well received questions
The question wasn't closed because it was unclear what was being asked. The question was closed because it was too opinion based.
Personally I think that is an excellent question to discuss with ...
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Voting irregularities?
Likely only a moderator would be able to offer an exact answer to this, but given that the relevant information would be covered by the confidentiality clauses in the moderator agreement a moderator ...
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How to boost upvotes on questions
While we should get people to upvote the good questions, your logic is somewhat flawed. A question could be badly written, yet be answered in a very admirable way. So it is possible to have a low-...
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Vote counting on questions/answers
I found a similar question on Meta StackExchange asking What exactly happens with the button “Leave Open” (previously “Do Not Close”)?
The accepted answer to that question states the following (...
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Closing hurdle for well received questions
Some of our highest voted questions are closed
The problem is that story-based and opinion-based questions can really catch the imagination of a reader and attract a lot of votes. Added to a lot of ...
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"Serial voting reversed" - meaning and response?
Whoa, those are a lot of questions... But
Is my understanding of what "serial voting reversed" means correct?
Essentially yes. It is one user who up/down voted suspiciously. Typically going ...
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How to boost upvotes on questions
Ask better questions
Have you considered simply asking better questions? I went and looked through your questions, and even your two highest voted ones are low quality to me - to me, your questions ...
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How to boost upvotes on questions
So, first of all, don't ask questions just for the rep. That's a bad idea, and it'll hurt the site. I see way too many posts that are blatant attempts to make it to the HNQ list, and more often than ...
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Do we have a troll in our midst?
Looking at the single example you've given and cross-referencing with the help-center post on 'down-voting', this behaviour certainly seems somewhat over the top.
Trying to find a reason for the down-...
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How fast can I vote to avoid the system thinkig that I'm a bot?
Badge hunting, does it go against the rules of the website?
No. Badges exist to encourage you towards good user behaviour.
Badges have been around since the beginning of Stack Overflow. They are our ...
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Ethics of voting for low-rep users?
Upvotes are a form of positive reinforcement. If you do something that's good, we will give you upvotes and you will learn that's the right thing to do. If we give you upvotes for bad things, then you ...
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Voting irregularities?
I can't give an example, no.
We don't discuss why individual users have or have not been suspended or had any other actions taken against them. The user in question is free to discuss it if they ...
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I only seem to have 32 votes a day
You can vote on up to 40 questions a day.
You can vote on up to 30 answers a day. And I think that if you vote on 30 answers, you stop being able to vote on questions as well.
So if you want ...
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I only seem to have 32 votes a day
The bottom line is that the Vox Populi badge requires you to vote on a lot of questions during the day you earn it. See this very apropos post here:
How to get vox-populi when I can no longer vote ...
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Questions with multiple answers but still flagged as off topic, too broad, or down voted
There's a difference between those who are simply having fun answering questions, and those who are maturing as participants on this (or any SE) site.
The former don't care what the rules are, they'...
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