Why can't I vote for the answers given for the question I have asked? I am currently on 4 reputation because somebody down voted my last question. I have now lost 6 rep.  Your rule says I should have 15 rep to vote for an answer. How can I get 15 rep on this platform from this kind of ridiculous rules. Your current rules are beyond laughable.   Please reform your policies.
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I've been lurking Stack Overflow whenever I had a problem for at least the last 2+ years. More times than not, I find my solution (or cobble one together) before I get frustrated enough to have the innernets help me with my specific custom problem.  Many times, the only commentary I would be able to add would be "thanks!" which really only wastes bits and bandwidth.  I understand implementing measures to keep the bots and SEO kids out, but sometimes it's a PITA to start participating in a community.  If you couldn't extract my question from the above rant (or title), this might be a little more clear:  Why do I require 15 reps to just up-vote something?  I feel like it's kinda silly.  Additionally, I noticed the quote off to the left:     We prefer questions that can be answered, not just discussed.   yet I have looked around here and haven't been able to find any justifiable explanation.
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I downvoted  and now really can't say why, so I wanted to remove my downvote. However, I get the message:  You last voted on this question yesterday Your vote is now locked in unless this question is edited  Why is this? I don't think I voted on it multiple times, and even when I did, I can change my mind, can't I?
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I was reading  last night. When I got to the bottom, where the answer button usually is, I saw the following message in its place:     protected by Won't Jun 13 '11 at 16:28      Thank you for your interest in this question. Because it has attracted   low-quality answers, posting an answer now requires 10 reputation on   this site.      Would you like to answer one of these unanswered questions instead?   I wasn't planning on answering it, but it did make me curious as I have 101 rep on the site. Is this a bug, or is there something I am missing?
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I got unaccepted for some question (I know this as I had 1360 rep yesterday night, and now I have 1345). According to  I should've been notified, but I didn't. I searched through most of my history, and yet I can still not find it.  Why is this?
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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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My question was downvoted but, it still listed the question at 0. I lost rep and am just curious if this was a bug.  Question:   Question List:
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OK, I know this has been discussed before ,   but I'd like to make a new suggestion.  Problem: drive-by downvoting - people downvote without explaining why. And when you downvote, legitimately, you lose rep, as does the questioner / answerer. This strikes me as being a lose / lose situation.  Previous solutions: e.g.  and  have required forcing comments.  Solution: How about this instead: keep the current system (downvoter loses rep) unless the downvoter adds a comment in which case no rep is lost. I think this is win/win. The downvoter can choose to enter comments but is encouraged to do so, which increases the feedback to the original questioner / answerer.
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Why is it wrong to serial voteup someone you like his answers?  Sometimes I just came to stackoverflow to read certain people answers(there are 4 guys currently) I have their profile bookmarked in my browser and in my free time at office I go to their profile and read their answers and learn a lot from them, but because I'm afraid to be a serial voter, I dont voteup them.   I think there is nothing wrong with that, if there is, please let me know.
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I had an old question that I revisited in order to link it in a new answer. I noticed that in the comments Steven A Lowe had a funny comment that I -- at the time -- had responded to with "why can't I upvote comments?"  Well, of course, now I can.  So, I voted Steven's comment up then went to delete mine. I got the warning box that I can only submit comment votes once every 5 seconds. This seems like a bug to me. Deleting is not the same as voting.
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Just curious, why is there a required privilege (especially one as high as 1000) to view vote counts for a post? It's not like someone can mess up a post by just viewing the vote counts. Is it just to give people incentive to reach 1000?
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Why can't there be (or is there?) a way to gain credence from one's reputation on one site to be able to do something on another (SE vs. SO)?  As someone who has long consumed StackExchange, StackOverflow, SuperUser, but only within the past few years posted questions or answers, I am confused and frustrated by the whole reputation thing.  I understand why reputation exists, but it is frustrating to want to upvote, comment, answer, or whatever, and be told you are not allowed because you don't have sufficient reputation.  If I had some new original questions I needed to ask, then I could gain reputation, but "the system" seems to think I am unworthy or clueless to be able to contribute or assess.  Finally I had enough rep (small by most standards) to be able to vote, and maybe even comment(?) on StackOverflow, based on technical questions.  But when I went to Stack Exchange for a question on OS X stuff, I have to start over with 1 rep.  Seems a bit like a slap in the face, particularly since (so far as I know) some questions could appear either place.  Yes, I have ready folks talking about exchanging bounty and how it is more difficult to earn rep on SE than SO, and I don't claim to know all about bounty and the ins and outs of types of rep.  But I do know that I feel as if I have to start over in each meeting place for technical questions, and it is a disincentive (for me) to be involved.  I realize not all (maybe nobody) will agree with my sentiment, but since I only have 1 rep, I guess folks' downvotes won't hurt me, right?
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I recently posted an "answer" to a self-asked and answered question with basically no votes. I was hoping to ask the poster a specific question about his code, but a moderator deleted it basically saying that it wasn't an answer and I should follow the rules.   This happened to me twice now, except the first time I wasn't deleted, just down-voted into oblivion. How am I supposed to ask questions and participate to earn reputation if I don't have any reputation to ask questions/participate within the guidelines? I came very close to 50 reputation points and then people went through and voted down my discussions with the OP.  This is almost akin to the "you can't get a job without experience" conundrum, and I feel an easy solution would be to lower the amount of reputation points required to comment on posts. It's ridiculous that this community is so hostile to someone who is only trying to contribute instead of just taking without giving back.  EDIT: Thanks, to whomever went through and voted up enough things to get me to 50 reputation points!
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NB: I'm not sure if this is actually a bug, or if I just don't know enough about what constitutes a new user. It just seems off to me.  The first post in question:   :   In the context of reviews, is a new user just someone who has never posted an answer no matter their age or rep?  Also: How is it possible for a user to have -1 other answers? Could this be related?
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Let's say I'm trying to answer a lot of questions just to up my reputation (even if I generally don't know what I'm talking about).  Then, whenever I get downvoted, I just delete my answer so that nobody sees that I've posted stupid answers, and so I don't lose reputation points.   Is this frowned upon? Do I lose reputation points on downvoted answers if I delete them?
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I've just noticed that if you try to vote without having a privilege to vote, you're greeted with such message:        So, that's interesting. Does it mean that if I gain 125 (or 15, in case I'm upvoting not having 15 reps) rep on that site, my "suggested" vote goes public and until then it would be recorded as it's done with anon feedback?  And until this change, the votes weren't recorded as anonymous, or has the new message saying that it acts as feedback been added just to not upset users?
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I am trying to improve my skill at asking questions, so I would like to ask feedback on a question I asked that was downvoted.    Why do you think I got downvoted?
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I registered on  only to post an answer to .  However, since it's a protected question, I am not allowed to answer it. (I found this info from ).  Worth to mention, I can comment on the above question, just not post an answer.  I was under the impression that the whole point of association bonus was to bypass such limits, so why isn't that the case for answering protected questions?