One person has downvoted my answer yesterday with a comment saying answer contain bad advice. Although that answer was accepted by OP and upvoted by one user also. But the user which has given an answer also which is not accepted by OP has downvoted and commented the answer contains a bad advice. even If I asked what bad advice my answer contains so that I can correct my answer and learn something. He did not replied though his answer didn't get any upvote. So what can I do in this case.
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I have been so annoyed recently by people who downvote my answers with no comments.  Usually it falls into one of two categories   The asker is asking a question that is inherently impossible or counter to the purpose of the thing they are asking about, like how do I use jQuery to (insert any horrific hack JavaScript coding practice jQuery is supposed to free us from).  The answerer responds with a reasoned description of why that might be misguided and offers an alternative approach.  Asker doesn't like that and downvotes the answer. A well meaning user posts a question, and Person A answers with a hastily written, insufficient, unreasoned, or maybe blatantly wrong answer.  Person B sees this answer, comments on why it might be insufficient, and then answers with a proper, well-reasoned answer.  Person A (presumably) sees this, gets angry, and downvotes Person B out of spite.   In both cases, of course, no helpful comment because all that would do is reveal how spiteful and/or vindictive the downvoting was.  I love Stack Overflow, but I am a busy person, so what little time I get to spend here, and what reputation I've earned, I've worked hard for, and I hope it adds to the value of the community at large ... but then someone comes along and chips away at my reputation out of spite, with no checks and balances?  If this goes on, what is my motivation for wanting to contribute to the community?  If I got downvoted with a reasonable comment, I would welcome that.  That shows me something I may not have thought of, gives me an opportunity to improve my answer, and again add to the community.  Downvoting with no comment serves no purpose but to degrade the community.  I propose that downvotes with no comment not detract from the poster's reputation.  And if that comment is something silly, and the comment gets flagged by someone else, the poster's reputation hit should be restored.  Thoughts?
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As far as I can tell downvoting is mostly useless.     For questions the only people who get downvoted are lower rep users, or incredibly stupid questions    most questions that are downvoted get closed anyway which should be sufficient downvoting doesn't have too much affect on your rep anyway a negative comment is more useful and more of a push too change or delete the question  For answers downvoting is often used incorrectly as well   people commonly competitively downvote (downvoting another answer to a question that you also answered) obviously not a good behavior downvoting (and upvoting) are contagious, meaning one downvote leads to a bunch of others even though downvotes don't effect rep that much they create a negative environment, no one wants their post downvoted, on the other hand criticizing comments, I think, are far more welcome      So basically in a nutshell a downvote serves no real purpose even if a post deserves it. Flagging, closing and commenting are much more useful to everyone including the poster than downvoting so why have it.    I now see from the answers and comments that downvotes do serve a purpose and would like to retract my request.
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The other day I saw an answer which was ok. Not great but not bad. So no reason to upvote or downvote. However the answer already had a single downvote. I felt this was unfair so upvoted the answer to keep it at what I felt was a fair score. It wasn't until afterward that it occurred to me that I should have perhaps solely voted on the content of the answer.  Is this a reasonable reason for an upvote or should I have left the answer alone?
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Example: Three days ago I was serial downvoted        After these weren't automatically reversed, 24 hours later, I flagged one of the posts. It was eventually marked as helpful, but the downvotes are still there.  It could be that it was 2 users, but it looks like too much of a coincidence.  What should you do in these circumstances?
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In the following situations, which answers should I accept?   I have ask a question and get two identical answers. Sometimes, none of the answers completely answers my question.  But, I will get a complete answer if I combine two of them together. Suppose someone answers my question but I'm not sure it really helps me so I leave a comment. Then another person explains it to me and helps solve my problem. Should I accept the answer given by the first person?     Example for 3rd case:--  Here  answer was given by Marc but explained in details by Barry. So should I accept the answer given by Marc. I have told Barry that he can post his comment as answer but he did not do that.
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I've been in the SO community a little over a month now - and having a great time!  As I grow into a contributing citizen of stackoverflow, i'd like to ensure that i'm being responsible with my answers.   I've answered a few questions, some without upvotes, some voted on and some accepted.  I feel that after a certain period of time, 0 vote answers are probably providing more clutter than value.  Apparently, nobody has found them useful, so they probably aren't (or are poorly written). Tonight I went through and deleted my answers with 0 upvotes where some answer was accepted.  That was an easy decision.   I left my 0 vote answers where nothing was accepted yet, well, because I think they could provide the information that the OP requested.  But at some point, I think my answers might just be cluttering the issue.  So my question to you is: How do you know when it's time to delete your 0 vote answers?  Or even 1 vote answers for that matter?
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I came across  answer earlier today, which I deemed trivial (all it gave was the solution, not an explanation of why it worked or how to prevent this from happening in the future, and was practically copied from the comments above, which were posted about two minutes before).   I left a comment explaining why I downvoted, and a few people took offense to it:     @RichardJ.RossIII You're downvoting an answer that answers the OPs question? – modifiable lvalue        @RichardJ.RossIII habitually violates the rules. Since this answer is not wrong or dangerous and is in fact useful, it should not be downvoted. +1 to compensate. – Jim Balter   My question is, is there a policy against doing this? Should we, as a community, accept and encourage such answers? Personally, I think the whole question should be deleted, as it is far from useful, but that's not the point here.  Generally speaking, I save my upvotes for answers which either helped me personally, or do an exceptional amount towards answering a question. I downvote a lot, as I have high standards (that's not to say that I'm perfect, however).  The bottom line is this: should I be more conservative with my downvoting patterns?
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I made a mistake today.  I . (A C# question, no less. My head is truly hanging in shame.) Unfortunately, by the time this was pointed out, the answer had already been accepted.  Another answer has been posted which is correct. It has more votes than mine, and mine has some downvotes (still a balance of upvotes, but...) Unfortunately because the answer has been accepted, I can't delete my answer. I've edited it so that it's correct - it won't mislead anyone any more - but I'd far rather delete it to let the original correct one float to the top.  In this case I suspect it won't be a real problem - the question author is reasonably regular, so hopefully he'll transfer acceptance to another answer reasonably soon. However, I can easily foresee situations where this wouldn't happen.  Could I suggest that the author of the accepted answer should be able to delete it, if the answer has received some threshold of downvotes (e.g. 3)? Deleting the answer straight away would have been preferable to editing it to be correct, effectively duplicating the effort already put in by Luis Filipe in this case.  I understand the "we don't want to lose value" argument for not letting a question author delete their own question after it's had good answers, but if an answer has received downvotes (so at least some of the community think it's harmful) and the answer's author thinks it should be removed, I think that should override the questioner's choice.
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I have an answer that I'm certain is technically correct. However, it continues to be downvoted. The answer has already been noted in comments on other answers to be better. It goes more in-depth than the others, yet it continues to be downvoted.  The already upvoted answers were nowhere close initially, and I had already commented on them to say why it is wrong...  Isn't there a limit for that? Shouldn't something be catching this?
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Consider the following scenario please:   I see a question and think I have a good answer or comment. I post my answer or comment and move on happily. After couple of hours I see comments that my answer is bad because this and that and it's really bad - I didn't think enough before posting.   The question is: should I delete my post, or leave it be so that people won't repeat my own mistake?
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I think more reputation points should be required to add a new answer than to upvote an existing answer.  I don't continually watch for new questions, so usually when I find a question it has already been answered.  It seems bit inappropriate to answer an already-answered question in order to contribute to the conversation, but until you earn reputation, you can't upvote or comment; you can only add new answers, which prevents me from contributing at the moment as much as I would like to.  This seems backwards to me. If someone incorrectly upvotes a bad answer, the damage is minimal, as other users can down vote it and upvote the correct answers. On the other hand, an incorrect answer wastes the time of everyone who reads it.  So, IMHO, it should require more reputation points to add an answer than to upvote or comment on an existing answer.  I wouldn't say say that users should be prevented from answering unanswered questions until they have x reputation points, as that might prevent users who have answers from providing them, but perhaps it should be required if the question is already answered, to discourage users from reiterating previously given answers.  What do you think?
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When reviewing possibly low quality posts you sometimes see OK answers, except that they're wrong. From the review interface you can't downvote so you can only comment or edit, and editing isn't really an option when the intended answer is wrong.  Once you've commented or upped an existing comment, should we then click Looks Good because there's nothing wrong with the answer, except that it's wrong, or Not Sure so that the answer is reviewed again (and again)?
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Some times people accept the answer but don't upvote it. When this happens to me I'm always tempted to ask them to upvote it, but I don't know if I'll look rude or needy lol. Should we ask for upvote when our answer is accepted or just let it go?  (It just happened to me )
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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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As I have been learning the ropes here on Meta, I have been reading and sometimes participating in discussions similar to  where other users have been mentioned by name and berated or mocked for some bad/gaming behaviour. Other times I've seen users simply just commented upon with "I've noticed that this user has a tendency to do link-only self-answers, what should I do?", and I have found myself thinking: "I wonder if they've ever said something similar about me?"  A couple of days ago, as part of  discussion, where a specific user is mentioned for supposedly poor reviewing another user made this comment to the OP:     -1. Exposing another user like this is not appropriate IMHO. You could just post the image without the link to his profile   The OP defended his position and I made a comment backing the OP, because the site favours substantiating claims with facts; especially on Meta those facts are frequently specific (sets of) questions and occasionally specific (sets of) users' behaviour. That is just how things are done, but I do think the objection is valid because when you are linking to a user profile you are targeting that specific user, and not some general behaviour.  So I suggest that one of the abilities that should come with perhaps 1000 or 1500 rep is that the "Responses" on your profile is expanded with "Links/Mentions" - and that this list is populated with mentions (in questions/answers/comments) where somebody have linked your profile.   The point being two-fold:   The community is no longer discussing/snickering behind said users backs, but are offering the criticism more directly. The user in question have a chance to know that something is not done right, and can act to improve (or defend) it, even when the behaviour is not bad enough to warrant intervention by system or mods. Also, when/if the behaviour improves, the user can flag the links to be removed as obsolete - and hence won't continue to be the laughing stock of everybody who happens to read the post.    The reason I think some reputation is required is from the assumption that more seasoned users will have thicker skin and hence handle the criticism better. I realise that some users will be beyond reach, but I think others would gain from it - and even without the gain, I do feel we all have a right to know when we are being discussed in the open.  Note that this suggestion is NOT for @-mentions in comments, but for links to user profiles.
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There has been a trend now two persons downvote it then it goes on like that. So let there be down voting but do not display the downvotes till the user votes on it. Else the user reads it with an impression that the question is not good.  Am I missing something?
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This has happened to me at least 3 times in the past few weeks. Basically, a user asks a question. I put some time and thought in an answer and reply to their question. I come back a bit later to see if they have commented on my answer and I don't have any notifications. Fine then, I check my list of recent answers but I can't find it in there. Perplexed, I check my browser history and retrace the question   I'm not sure what the purpose of this is, but perhaps someone could clear it up for me? Why do people do that? Is it because they realized what the answer was themselves? In this case, they should probably post an answer and accept it, to help other people who will encounter the same problem? Maybe from the answers they were given, they realized that the question's answer was obvious, and are ashamed of having asked it? Even in this case, I still don't think they should delete the question, but instead accept an answer and thus reward those who gave time answering their question, and maybe help others with the same problem in the future.  Am I the only one seeing this or is this a common problem? I wish I could retrace all the times this has happened to me. Is there something that can be done against this?