Questions tagged [voting]
Peer voting on questions and answers is the primary way users gain reputation, and also how many items are sorted to the top.
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The post score says "Vote" on posts where I've already voted
When the change to the site was made so that numbers start at "vote", not 0 there was an answer posted that asked that if you aren't eligible to vote on, you won't be prompted to vote. It ...
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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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Why do the answers show the word "Vote" instead of showing the current vote counts? [duplicate]
I'm looking at this question Blur event seems to be getting lost if a mousedown event occurring before that delays it and there are two answers. But instead of the answers showing their current vote ...
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Is the voting experiment still an experiment?
The voting experiment announcement was to be monitored until 2024-12-23. This is probably why there was no feedback to my post there for ten days now. Hence, I am re-posting it as a separate question:
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How do I opt out or manually revert the new "vote encouragement" experiment?
I understand that it's an experiment for encouraging more voting, but I do not want to be a part of it.
How do I "opt-out" officially or unofficially (e.g., via a browser plugin)?
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Don't change the score back and forth when voting on a vote-locked post
When voting on a vote-locked post, we get this error-message:
You last voted on this question Sep 21 at 4:29. Your vote is now locked in unless this question is edited.
OK, fair enough. But the ...
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Voting experiment to encourage people who rarely vote to upvote
Update April 10th, 2025
This feature has been graduated. Voting increased with both lower-rep users and high-rep users.
Update January 16th, 2025
This morning, we expanded the vote prompt and popover ...
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A proposal to place the voting buttons below the answer
I do this thing very often, where I see the first two or three lines of an answer and make a quick decision about voting on it; I upvote if I think it is nice/correct/adds value, or downvote otherwise....
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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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Spam flags cast automatic downvotes on Staging Ground questions
There is no votes shown in SG posts so I used to think that SG posts didn't have scores. But I after raised a red flag on an SG post:
So... SG posts can actually be (down-)voted? Will this affect the ...
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Finding out when someone voted for your question on Stack Exchange
Here is a question I posted on a Stack Exchange website: https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/4404052/why-is-the-traveling-salesperson-problem-difficult
Is it possible to see a complete history of ...
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Is the voting culture on SO different than other SE sites?
I've only recently really begun to answer questions on Stack Overflow after having only asked questions. I've spent a large portion of my time in Chemistry Stack Exchange where one typically easily ...
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"Vote as duplicate" remains available even after I "Vote[d] as off-topic", but then it fails at the last step of voting
I just voted a non-programming question as off-topic but when I looked up the resolution I realized that the target, while also being off-topic, is available on Stack Overflow, so I wen't back to the ...
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Pausing the 1-rep voting experiment on Stack Overflow: reflecting on the feedback and rethinking the approach
I acknowledge the feedback shared by community members and by moderators. We felt that this experiment was important because it allowed users to participate and engage in a low-effort core action on ...
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We will launch the 1-rep voting experiment on Stack Overflow for 4–6 weeks, along with account creation prompts [duplicate]
Moderator note: - This experiment has been postponed. Please see the duplicate post above for the explanation and discussion.
It's been a while since we last talked about the one-reputation voting ...
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