Questions tagged [down-votes]
Questions relating to down-voting posts.
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Improvements for the question-asking form in ChemSE
As a new user myself (just 22 days old), I feel as if the downvoting policy needs a major rejig.
I agree to the fact that downvotes must be anonymous - as if the person who is downvoting is known, ...
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Please help me understand why asking about an acid-base reaction was down-voted and closed
I am new to Chemistry on SE and was DV'd several times and closed for this question:
What results from the neutralization copper citrate with Na2CO3
It seems on-topic, but I must be missing ...
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Feature request on asking a user for the reason on downvoting a question
Wouldn't it be legit for an OP to know why his posts are getting downvoted, Wouldn't it be great if the user submits a reason when downvoting, This would both the user to improve and for the mod to ...
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What to do if I receive down-votes?
The following posts of mine currently have downvotes:
Is Potassium permanganate an oxidizing agent or is the Permanganate ion the oxidizing agent?
Convention for writing concentration units
How is 1 ...
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How to improve my question “How can warm steel and wood merge together?”?
Could someone please explain to me why my question How can warm steel and wood merge together? was downvoted, and what I should correct for the next time?
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Why are my questions downvoted for no reason?
Lots of my questions were downvoted or have no votes at all for bad or even no reasons,even though I try to do my best at researching and studying the topic(there are some good ones too). Can anyone ...
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Do we appreciate questions?
Looking at the question feed on the main chemistry site today, it seems like more than two thirds have a negative score. Have the questions gotten worse, or have the voters become more critical? Or is ...
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Regarding anonymous downvotes
This time I took severe care regarding the notations. Not even a single person is leaving a comment on the answer to point out my mistake.
answer someone downvoted without mentioning my error, ...
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Downvoted without reason
I posted the following question, and I got two downvotes without reason.
Resource for general organic chemistry
I did my research (looked at the whole resource page and browsed books like Solomons ...
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Targeted downvotes?
A lot of my questions have got downvotes recently:
Note that most of these questions are not active ones: I had asked most of them more than a week ago and had accepted answers for the same. One or ...
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Why so many low-quality questions with negative votes?
I recently scrolled through Chemistry SE and found $6/15$ ($40$%) of the questions on the front page had net negative votes. The questions themselves were obviously low-quality (many were on hold) ...
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Why is this question down voted? What is the tradition in here?
I've been an active user in the SE network, especially on math.SE, physics.SE etc., but not chemistry.SE, and today I asked the question: Why is Avagadro's number independent of substance?
However, ...
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Why do we downvote without commenting?
Ah! This is a big challenge I am facing while writing answers.
Usually all users try to write their answers as clearly as possible, but still errors do occur.
But what are the errors?
Conceptually ...
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Are downvoted questions bad?
Before asking this question, I went through many questions asking about almost the same question I have. Most of them stated that a question which doesn't 'fit' in SE's policy are downvoted (Eg: A ...
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Should I downvote answers to a duplicate question?
If a question received an answer before being closed as a duplicate, should I downvote the answer? The answer could very well have been taken from the original question, slightly modified and fed to ...
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Isn't silent downvoting becoming too much frequent?
Since (earlier last month) I have joined chemistry SE, I have gradually found it to be a very interesting than other QnA sites.
But, of late, I have become a little bit concerned about the usage of ...
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why do we lose rep when we downvote answers
The title just it, I really don't know if someone else has posted the same thing, but just keen to know, I mean if we feel an answer is no good, shouldn't we be given the freedom to down vote it at no ...
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Why exactly has the question and answer received multiple downvotes?
Is cis-1,2-dimethylcyclohexane a meso compound?
Today I had asked this question and also received an well-written answer for it by @orthocresol. I really couldn’t spot any trait in either the ...
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Please exercise your votes
At the expense of becoming public enemy number one, I have decided to post a grumpy post. (It was rather grumpy when I first posted it, I hope it reads better now.)
This is hardly a new call to ...
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What is the purpose of downvotes on questions?
To emphasize, this question is about downvotes on questions, not answers. Downvotes are great, e.g., for answers that are coherent and well-written, but are factually wrong. The utility of downvotes ...
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Should a down vote require a comment
I find it annoying when I get a down vote and there is no comment about why. If someone down votes a question or answer, then they have a reason for doing so, it it would help the poster improve.
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Why are so few votes on Chemistry.StackExchange?
For example most viewed question (viewed 26k Times) and only 36 votes? Or next one (800 times viewed) has 22 votes. I do not understand why the voting system on the Chemistry.StacExchange is not ...
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down-voting possible after the question is closed?
There are 2 questions on down-votng and closed questions.
Is it POSSIBLE to down vote a question after the question is closed?
Also, is it required that the question CAN be down voted after the ...
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