If somebody clicks on up-vote or down-vote accidentaly, what is the way to undo it? or shoudn't it ask for confirmation?
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Today I voted up the wrong answer. I noticed that there's no way to undo your votes. When you have voted an answer you are forced to vote it, even if you don't want to. I immediately noticed the error and I could just change my vote to up or down, not delete my vote. It makes no sense at all, imho. Since you are able to change your vote within 5 minutes, you should also be able to remove your vote entirely. I can't believe no one noticed that before...
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Anyone seen this one yet? Vote too old to be changed, unless post is edited My vote was only a few hours old. Then I realized the answer was wrong. Updated my question and went to remove the vote. Even after updating question I still have the issue. Small issue, but frustrating.  See also:
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It seems like maybe cancelled downvote might be less...weird?
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Serial downvotes usually get detected and reversed automatically every night. This event is usually grouped under a header "Serial Downvoting Reversed" in a user's reputation history.   On various occasions however, I have seen such a reversal take place, yet appear as a regular "Undownvote". How do I know they are reversals and not the user undoing his downvote? They all take place at 3am UTC at the exact same moment. And in several such instances the votes would have been locked anyway.   One example is the reputation history for  for September 24th. All 3 undownvotes took place at exactly 03:00:04.   So I guess the votes get invalidated but not properly grouped/marked?
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I recently tried to un-upvote a comment, and received a message that if I did so, I would not be able to upvote it again:     Are you sure you want to undo your upvote on this comment? You will not be able to upvote it again.   Unlike , I completely understand what the message is saying. However, why am I not allowed to upvote it again? What's the reasoning behind this decision?
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Actually, I don't, but the message leads to confusion:  Wait... I have to wait for more votes to have this embarrassing and compromising answer deleted?
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I came across a  for a Community Wiki post. It was (to me) obvious it was an audit. However, I did not have any options to do anything about the post. My options were to Skip, or to select No Action Needed. The former does nothing to prove I knew how to handle the post, the latter leads to a &quot;You were naughty&quot; message (I tried both). What I wanted to do but was not given the options for, was to flag, comment, or vote down. None of these options were available. This is most likely a bug due to this being a deleted CW post.   ran into this problem as well and managed to create a screenshot:    Added by DragonLord to avoid posting a non-answer to the question  I can reproduce this bug with a review audit item that was a spam post I had already flagged. While this isn't exactly the same as the issue originally described by the OP, I suspect this problem has the same root cause. Click image to view full size  I was able to downvote it, but , so this is a crude workaround at best. Can someone address this?
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Someone  to try and get help reopening , and it got deleted as a result.  I voted to undelete it and flagged it as well since , and noticed it has been deleted a 2nd time, with the same user initiating the delete vote.    I can also vote to undelete a 2nd time.  Why are delete/undelete votes not limited to once per user per post the way close/reopen votes are?
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Currently we capture fanatic, voting ring or rage-type activities, by measuring the number of up-votes or down-votes between the same two users in a certain (relatively short) time period. When this is detected by the system, the votes are reversed, and I've never bothered to investigate what else happens after that - though I'm sure some form of wrist-slapping ensues.  While it is intended to be well-guarded for obvious reasons, the algorithm used is not exactly a secret, and I am sure there are plenty of examples where people are dangling (maybe intentionally, or maybe by dumb luck) just on the safe side of getting caught.  Personally I believe there are active, intentional, long-term vendettas in operation right now where users either:   blindly up-vote every answer from a user; or, down-vote a particular user once or twice a day, regardless of topic or quality.   Now, maybe the first one is valid - if I'm operating in the same tag-sphere as some smart person, it may just be that I'm constantly enthralled with their answers, and I'm not even noticing who they're written by. (Though, even Skeet isn't perfect, and I haven't up-voted every answer I've seen him post.)  But still, can we do a better job of catching - or at least noticing - this activity over the long term in addition to the short term?  The behavior is the same, and shouldn't be tolerated, regardless of the time frame - vengeful rage serial voting, blind staker crush serial voting, and painstakingly patient serial voting are all undesirable behaviors IMHO.  I'm not saying it has to do anything automatically, as I'm well aware of the possibility of false positives. And I'm not even sure what to propose as a time frame or a vote threshold.      But if a large percentage of my up-votes or down-votes are against a particular user, and especially if on a majority of those posts I am the only one voting in that direction, I think it should at least be raised as some kind of flag to moderators.   This would work much like how other suspicious activity is highlighted (but also not dealt with automatically). If a pattern becomes obvious and persists, then they can intervene in some way (or not, but at least they were provided with the information - just like they can reject and ignore manual flags). Today, all I can do is e-mail team@stackoverflow.com, and unless I know exactly which person(s) are involved, there is not much they can do about it.  And you're thinking, "Meh, let some hater down-vote you once or twice a day. Unless all you're posting is utter crap, it should be statistically insignificant." You're right. But reputation is not the point, and is not the motivation behind my request. What I'd like to see curtailed is the tendency for folks to down-vote a question or answer because of who posted it, not because of what it said or didn't say. When a down-vote is personal it can leave a person second-guessing the quality of their post. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing, except when it happens repeatedly.  Sorry for the essay but I wanted to try to anticipate and cover all the objections and hole-poking.
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I'm relatively new in StackOverflow, even though my account is 2 years old, I started actively contributing to site a few months ago.  I'm trying to do my best and while doing it, hoping to learn more than I currently know.  Today, for the first time, most of my answers were serially upvoted by someone/something I don't know.   And felt worried about it, I thought that this will negatively affect my account standing by creating an indication that I used a sockpuppet (I think that's what it's called)  Those reputation bonuses were reversed by the automatic mechanism a few moments ago, however, the upvotes and the "Serial upvoting reversed" event is still visible.   I'm acting incredibly picky while building my reputation anywhere just like any serious minded person would do. Now that "Serial upvoting reversed" message stands there, giving false signals to my profile visitors that I'm cheating rather than working my hands. This is a terrible feeling.  Even though I can't prove it, I never tried to gain reputation by chicanery.  What I would like to know is, if there's a serial upvote incident like that happening, how should we react to it?   Can we file an abuse report to somewhere?
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Sometimes you vote to close something and the OP then changes it to fix the issue or issues. You can't take a close vote back though. It would be nice if you could.    With the new Duplicate close changes and the review queues, it's even more important to be able to remove accidental or erroneous close votes: close votes now place a banner on the question (for dupes) or put the question into a queue for other users to look over.  An easy "undo" button could save a bunch of people some time and grief for these accidental/no longer desired close votes.
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I just  marked as a duplicate by a user, who didn't seem to have read the content of the post, and left a "Read the documentation." comment,  without even giving any additional explanation.   The post then got enough votes to be re-opened after other users pointed out that the proposed dupe wasn't the same problem.  My problem was eventually solved, but I couldn't help but wonder if users should get some sort of notice or warning for incorrectly closing a post that is eventually reopened?
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I don't like such kind of questions on Meta, so I will try to make it a good question and describe all with a details.  Today I down-voted  added a comment with explanations why I down-voted it, and flag it as non constructive (my flag was marked as helpful). An hour later  was downvoted, without any comment left about the reason. Yes, that wasn't my best answer, but in my opinion it answers the question. Well, even if somebody considered my answer incorrect he could add the correct answer, or up-vote the competitive ones. I checked the  who made competitve answer, and he didn't get any rep today for that answer.   It was my second down-vote on Stack Overflow, so I was a little bit down, after that. I think who could considered my answer so completely wrong, and that I thought that maybe it was revenge down-vote. So I checked  of the user I down-voted today, and it was clear that he down-voted some answers today. After I checked that that user cast only 19 downvotes in 8 months, so chances were very big that this was revenge down-voting.  I came to this meta, and searched what I should do in this case. I found that most questions about down-votes, were closed as duplicates. After I found , and found that a team member of Stack Exchange suggested to cast a flag for moderator attention, and explain the situation there.  I did that, and create next flag:     I think after I down-voted this question (and a comment about this), the OP down-voted me in revenge; it's clear from his today's reputation and from timing of my down-vote of his question, and time when one of my answers was downvoted. I cannot be 100% sure about that, but if somebody can check this, and point him that it's not the good way to do.   As you can see, I didn't ask for returning any reputation, or banning that user, I just wanted, somebody to point him, that he did wrong. And after I get this respons on my flag: "declined - flags should only be used to make moderators aware of content that requires their intervention." So in the end I also lost 10 points of the flag weight.  After describing all situation in details, I want to know were exactly I was wrong here. And what should I do next time something like this happens?
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I've just been the 'victim' of some serial up-voting:    This has pushed me over the rep cap for the day, so any other up-votes I receive today won't 'earn' the rep so-to-speak.  My question is this: What happens when these serial up-votes are inevitably reversed when the midnight script runs? At what point do those votes that previously didn't count towards my reputation get converted into actual reputation points? Is it automatic, or after a reputation re-calc, etc.?  I realise there are plenty of questions about serial up-voting on this site, but after trawling through most (all?) of them I couldn't find one that discussed how the rep cap is affected by the reversal.  I know I could just wait and see what happens but I'm impatient ;)
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Currently, the system makes you think you can upvote/downvote your own question/answer but then you get notified that you can't. Why have the up/down vote buttons there then?   In general, if some operation is not allowed, then don't put UI for that up or make it disabled so it is apparently disabled - no post operation error panels please?  ps: hope this is not a dupe, but if so, just comment it and I will remove  (+a joke: a user notification panel message: I deleted this file. Is this a problem? Yes/No.)
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I suspect a user is cheating. He's cheated in the past but I don't want to get into it here. Instead I want to contact a moderator about this. What is the best way to go about this? Should I send an email to the SO team or flag a post in question? Though it isn't about any one post but instead a pattern of behavior. I want to provide some fairly detailed findings, at least the best findings a regular user can provide. Also, do moderators have the ability to look into who is casting votes?
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I've posted a question or an answer, and I have received one or more downvotes. I am not really sure why I was down voted, or I think I know why, but I disagree.  Why did this happen, and what should I do about it?