Questions tagged [down-votes]
Downvotes are the community's way of telling peers that their content can be improved. Downvotes on meta may have different meanings.
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Is downvoting without comment a common and/or recommended practise?
I am a new user on Math.StackExchange. So far, I've asked 3 questions, and submitted one answer. Of the questions I asked, two were down-voted, and one was subsequently deleted. All these actions were ...
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MSE's policy on restricting the use of downvotes for answers: Targeting a member or ANY non-scientific reasons? [closed]
I recently received the following public comments on how to use down-votes from a senior diamond moderator, Dr. Xander Henderson, who patiently explained me the policy of the site on how to use down-...
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Is it correct a member or moderator who wants to close a question uses Down Votes to force MSE members to not answer that question? [closed]
This post pertains to this question: Does convergence of measures, with respect to the KL-divergence, imply almost sure convergence of the RN-derivatives?
using down-votes by a member or moderator to ...
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Trying to understand downvote criteria [duplicate]
I recently asked a question after spending some time researching the web for an answer. It turned out that there was already a similar question on Stackexchange. I had not found it, but not for lack ...
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Feature: options for downvoting an answer similar to the options for closing a question
For the most part, users give very useful comments that help improve the question/answer.
But I am sure many of you too must have come across sometimes the mysterious offshoot downvote and then spend ...
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I want to understand as to why my question was downvoted.
I have a question about my Mathematics Stack Exchange post: Need to compute the conditional expectation
I have received two downvotes for this question. I am a new user to this platform, and this was ...
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When is it appropriate to retract a downvote?
I was idly looking through a list of questions that I had downvoted. Some of those questions now looked OK, and I wondered why I had downvoted them. In one case I investigated, the explanation was ...
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What is wrong with my question on the definition of tangent plane?
I asked this question yesterday, and edited it today to include clarification.
It is - I think - a fairly honest and straightforward question, and I have provided a detailed explanation of my thinking ...
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Why was my question down voted and deleted, even though I mentioned my level (learning on my own in the Internet) and showed source and my reasoning?
I have a question about my Mathematics Stack Exchange post: Can a residue class $(a \textrm{ mod } n)$ have a negative $n$?
My question is: could someone provide me feedback on why this question was ...
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Why do I get a down vote when asking for clarification about notations and explanations about proofs?
Recently in some of my posts, also here, and here, I have been getting down votes. The latter two, others have voted back up to make it zero. I am just wondering if people on MSE don't like questions ...
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What should I do with my downvoted duplicate post?
My post has been downvoted, and I'm not sure what the appropriate action is for me to take.
On the one hand, there's contribution from other users so the post can't and shouldn't be deleted.
On the ...
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Request to add a new privilege on MSE - the right of reply
It should be only fair that, when someone casts a downvote on MSE, the recipient of the downvote had a chance to respond. This is known at large as the right of reply or "the right to defend ...
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Do we downvote all PSQ? Also a few questions about comment-answers and comment-hints [duplicate]
At the time of writing, this post has 28 views and no downvotes (or upvotes). I see it simply as a PSQ (Problem Statement Question), and it is quite possible it will be closed soon. I didn't downvote ...
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How to deal with the negativity of a power user that picks on you?
For a while, I've been having my suspicions about a certain power user that often downvotes my questions - both here and on MO. Now, I know for certain this user has downvoted a question of mine at ...
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Asking and editing good questions, but still receiving more downvotes than upvotes [duplicate]
Not a duplicate of I have been banned from asking questions, what should I do?
I edited and improved some Math StackExchange questions as much as possible, but I'm still receiving more downvotes than ...
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