Questions tagged [upvotes]
This tag is for questions specific to upvotes, the community's way of telling peers that their content was clear and helpful. Upvotes on the Meta sites may have different meanings.
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Why does it now say "VOTE" next to many Stack Overflow questions and answers? [duplicate]
Coming back from a bit of a Stack Overflow break, I'm surprised to see many questions and answers yelling at me to "VOTE" rather than showing me the score:
I thought this was a bug at first;...
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Who is upvoting spam in discussions (and can they please stop)?
In the past few days, I've noticed that just about all spam posts in Discussions have an upvote, some multiple (I guess I could link to a specific one but it will very quickly be deleted and then you ...
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Display answers I've upvoted first [duplicate]
I always upvote Q/A's to serve as a breadcrumb to myself. If I see an upvoted Q/A, I know I encountered that problem before and found the Q/A helpful.
With that in mind, it would be nice to have a ...
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Add the option to auto-upvote a post on approval of a suggested-edit
When doing a suggested-edit, the goal is to improve a post to such a degree, so that there is a good question/answer in the end. Good posts should be reflected in the score.
Therefore, I propose that, ...
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Why do upvote indicators now have a brown background? [duplicate]
When I upvote a SO question, the upvote indicator background adopts a strong brown color. That didn't use to be the case. Why does brown make sense? Why was this change made? Considering one of the ...
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Is it OK to upvote unhelpful posts made by new users?
I am a new user and I cannot tell you how bad I wanted to comment on posts. When I finally unlocked the privilege to vote and comment I was so happy. I want to upvote posts for new users so that they ...
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If I appreciate the effort and scope of an answer but cannot verify its correctness, is upvoting appropriate?
If I appreciate the effort and scope of an answer but cannot verify its correctness, and I am not the asker, is upvoting the answer a correct thing to do?
For example, I came across this post. I might'...
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How do I check my past upmod (pre-upvote-privilege) upvoted answers?
I have a repeated issue and I have to find an answer which I marked as helpful (upvoted).
My upvote activity shows nothing under this link: https://stackoverflow.com/users/current/?tab=votes&sort=...
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Inaccurate reputation increase in profile reputation tab [duplicate]
I understand that normally one upvote would reward 10 reputations to user, however, I noticed that when I clicked into the reputation tab under my profile after getting upvotes, the reputation ...
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Add datetime type information to a post that I voted on
Would it be possible to have somewhere the information on when we upvoted or downvoted a post (in case of post was edited by OP or someone else)? For example, see the tooltip below.
It's a feature I'...
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When answering, should we upvote the question and the other (correct) answers? [duplicate]
When answering a question on Stack Overflow and the other Stack Exchange sites, I usually upvote both the question, as well as any other answers on the question that correct and working. My reasoning ...
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Why does accepting answers not automatically upvote them? [duplicate]
I've seen this a lot on my own answers, where they have been accepted but received 0 upvotes. Is there a reason why this is possible, and not just automatically upvoted on accept? On the other hand, ...
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Why do my questions often get upvoted while my answers get downvoted?
I'm an average Stack Overflow user. I ask some questions and I get some upvotes. I also thought about answering other people's questions. I don't know why, but I get downvoted every time I do that.
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How should I deal with an incorrect answer that is accepted and has massive upvotes? [duplicate]
I'm looking at the question How can I do a FULL OUTER JOIN in MySQL? that has an accepted answer that is incorrect and that has been upvoted 832 times, at least.
I did my work: I downvoted it and ...
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Looks like someone is abusing the votes, should I care?
I'm looking at the newest question and I see quite a few questions in a row all upvoted but some have just 3 views which is very rare to get upvoted within a minute.
And when I look at the actual ...
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