Questions tagged [down-votes]
Questions relating to down-voting posts.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...
