Questions tagged [downvoting]
The downvoting tag has no usage guidance.
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Personal Opinion answers and comments: Flag, downvote, comment, or do nothing?
I'm getting the sense that a lot of questions are receiving answers and comments from a wide variety of personal perspectives. In a looser forum, sans-voting, this is perfectly acceptable and great. ...
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Request to downvoters: please explain
On the main1 site, I often see questions with down votes but no explanation. Today's example with two down votes:
Why does Jesus feel only certain people that come into physical contact with Him?
I ...
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More downvotes today: I think I am the victim of some serial downvoting
I made a meta post describing a peculiar sequence of voting events on some of my questions.
I log on today to see that three more of my questions have been downvoted and no comment was left. 1 2 3
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Require reason for down-votes?
Down-voters should be required to give a reason, as a comment of a certain word length, for their down-votes.
cf. Meta.StackExchange.com question "Why isn't providing feedback mandatory on ...
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Is it acceptable to "vote your convictions" on Christianity.SE?
Suppose someone asks a question that garners multiple answers. Is it a good practice for another user to up-vote answers that, in the users opinion, are doctrinally correct (supported by that user's ...
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Should we downvote to disagree with a question?
I posted this question about whether a given main site question should be reopened because there was a debate happening on the main site and I wanted to take it off there and onto meta, which is the ...
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How to appeal a down vote based on false allegation?
Did St. Thomas of Aquinas deny the Holy Spirit proceeds immediately from the Father alone?
In my recent post, I was downvoted by a user who accused me for confusing Gennadius II Scholarius who lived ...
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