Questions tagged [voting]
Peer voting on questions and answers gives users most of their reputation, and also usually controls how posts are sorted to the top.
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I can accept my own answer without waiting for 48 hours. If I retract the accept vote, it shows an error message [duplicate]
I accidentally accepted my own answer at The “View all” community buttons in the Community user's site profiles link to a server error page.
When I accepted my own answer, I was shocked.
Here it ...
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Error message “User has already voted this way. Undo the vote, or change the vote to continue” when trying to retract a delete vote [duplicate]
There is an existing question about the same error but when trying to unfollow: Error message “User has already voted this way. Undo the vote, or change the vote to continue” when unfollowing posts. ...
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Error message “User has already voted this way. Undo the vote, or change the vote to continue” when undoing certain actions
There seems to be a bug where unfollowing posts, unaccepting an answer, and retracting (un)deletion votes gives this message:
User has already voted this way. Undo the vote, or change the vote to ...
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Received response clearly meant for someone else to a support ticket; what happened? [closed]
My profile was suspended on Math Stack Exchange for voting to close questions that lacked context and didn't show any attempt. Other users who also voted to close those questions were not suspended.
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Voting for comments from the review queues doesn't work
If you click on the up arrow next to a comment from the review queue, the page scrolls and the voting doesn't work (printscreen is from Stack Overflow in Russian, but I think, the language isn't ...
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How and when is voting fraud investigated? [duplicate]
As you all know, Up and Down voting questions on all Stack Exchange sites is a crucial part of network’s functionality, because it not only decides how correct or relevant questions and answers are, ...
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Should moderators override the community's "reopen" votes? [duplicate]
Currently, moderators can unilaterally close questions that the community voted to reopen, voting repeatedly even, which I've seen happen.
If moderators are elected by the community, should they ...
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Strange color change when clicking the vote button and holding the mouse
I upvoted a question today and saw than when clicking the upvote button, there was a strange color change to a blue color that seems to be consistent across all sites.
Example taken from Stack ...
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The vote button disappeared if I voted a question/answers without signing up [duplicate]
Today, I see this question on the TeX - LaTeX site. Command for Multiplying Integers
I want to upvote the answers.
I click the upvote.
Oops, I forgot I didn’t even sign up an account for that site.
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Vote Button :active state not reset after mouseDrag
The Vote button got some styling changes [1], which introduced a state where the ::active color does not reset, whereas the arrow stays white, becoming invisible on the white background.
Press (and ...
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Misleading banner: A retracted reopen vote means that you can't then vote to close the reopened question? [duplicate]
I found a strange bug the other day.
There was a poorly formatted/asked question, on a site1 (that I am not a moderator of), that I voted to close. It was closed eventually with another two votes (...
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Add an option to sort answers by the viewer's previously cast votes
Motivation: When I sort by highest score, what I really want is that by default, what other people found the most useful is at the top, because I'm in a mode where I want to find things that will be ...
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Does the network currently promote "shows no effort" as a good reason to downvote a post?
A little history.
Many years ago the network settled for banning comments to low-effort-questions that contained "Let me google that for you" links in an attempt to be more "welcoming&...
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Why are you telling me to undo my vote when my vote is locked in?
When I hover over the upvote or downvote arrows on a post where I have voted, I see the following tooltip "this answer is useful (click again to undo)".
I never really noticed the phrase &...
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Allow high-reputation users or topic experts to "endorse" answers posted by other users
The problem
I am a Physics Stack user and I made a feature request that I was told would be a better fit for the mother meta site. I am a user who primarily answers way more than I ask.
In short, the ...
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