Well, I asked a question about several weeks ago. I accepted the answer, but I didn't upvote it, not because the accepted answer is not good, but I have already accepted it.  I'm not stingy to give him/her an upvote,but I am just curious whether it is an unspoken rule that I should give him/her an upvote if I accepted his/her answer?  Ps. I'm not angry with anybody. :-)
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Is there ever a case where you would want to accept an answer, but not upvote it?  I can't think of a single situation where this would be the case.. So would it not make sense to have the "Accept" button upvote the answer too?
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I came across  question, which is fairly old, has 2 very good answers (with a good amount of up-votes), and the OP has stated in his question that both of the answers are acceptable. Yet they have not accepted either and simply left a note in their original question about the "correct" answer.  Is there anything that needs to be looked at here? Should I comment that the OP should accept an answer if they have one? Should I flag it?
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I am not sure if this comment about a suggestion on stackoverflow should be written here, but I do think so.   I would recommend, if this is possible, when downvoting a question, to be mandatory for the downvoter, to write the reason why he/she downvoted. I think this should be much more helpful for the OP to understand better what he did wrong, in order to fix it, if he does not want to get more downvotes. Downvoting itself, does not help the OP much, nor the people that might have a similar programming problem.  Please write what do you think guys. I know that most of you will disagree with me, but I find that giving feedback when downvoting is more useful for all of us.
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Am I really forced to ask a question before gaining reputation to vote up answers that I find helpful?  I've used StackOverflow for years in my JavaScript development, and I see myself as a pro. But I always find my questions already been asked and answered, therefore never had the need to ask any questions, but I still want to vote up stuff that I find helpful. But I have not enough reputation to do so.
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A good question will receive many answers, and much more views than normal.    This level of activity is not reflected in the upvoting of said question. I recently encountered several such questions, which until I pointed this in the comments () stayed in the lower 0-2 upvotes.    My two suggestions:   Automatically upvote any question you answer, with the ability to cancel this up-vote. This makes sense to me, as I answer only questions I like/are good (and I suppose others too). Display popup message similar to:       Have you considered upvoting this question?    Addressing comments given so far: Answers do not mean a question is good, but it does imply you have an opinion on it. So why not prompt any one who answers to express their opinion by voting? (Similar to what happens when you upvote an answer to your own question).
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I have first downvoted an answer. Then, I decided to leave it the way it was before, meaning to undo my downvote just like it never existed, so I upvote to remove my downvote. Suprise! SO seems to consider it as two upvotes!  Let's say I have an answer with -3, then I decide to downvote it making it -4. After deeper thoughts, I prefer to remove my downvote to let it the way it was before I downvoted, meaning -3, but SO makes it -2 automatically!     Wouldn't it be supposed -3, and not -2? If someone else would have upvoted, it would have made it an upvote +1, not a +2!   Am I missing something here?  In fact, is there a way to tell SO that I only wish to undo my downvote, and not upvote the answer? I may understand why it does behave this way. I only wish to undo my downvote, though.
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Whenever I submit an answer (a real answer, not some @someone comment) I upvote the question.  I generally do this because if the question is good enough to take time to answer it, it's good enough to be brought to someone else's attention.  Do you do this?  What are your guidelines for upvoting a question that you answer?
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There was  by  (no, another Jon) that had an incorrect accepted answer with 0 votes. I pointed out in the comments that the accepted answer is wrong and started writing my own answer (a workaround, but anyway!). As I finished my answer and pressed Post Your Answer, I realized the question has just been deleted. This kind of bugs me because I really wanted to share my solution. Should I:  repost the question; wait for someone to revert it if possible?  Update I reposted the question (along with my answer) .
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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?
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Is upvoting duplicate questions really following the guidelines of the all mighty alt text?     The question shows research effort; it is useful and clear   I raise this question after recently receiving this comment on a  question.     @FreshPrinceOfSO Then close-vote on that basis, please. At the same time, there's nothing wrong with up-voting a question that has already been asked. – Jonathan Sampson   I don't believe the question shows research effort because the OP would have discovered the duplicate questions. Further, I don't think it's useful being a duplicate. Given these two criteria, it seems like the question merits a downvote and a close.   In my opinion, upvoting the question just raises the question to be "valid," which I don't feel supports the principle of voting up.     Voting up is how the community indicates which questions and answers are most useful and appropriate.   ... and it should be discouraged.
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What does it mean to accept an answer? How do I accept an answer, and what are the rules? Can I accept my own self-answer? What are the reputation benefits? Which answer should I accept? Should I upvote the accepted answer? What should I do if none of the answers are suitable?      For more information, see "" in the .
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Quite often a number of users will give similar answers to one of my questions. Sometimes someone will give an answer that is interesting, but does not really help with my question.  In all cases, I feel a need to thank the people who answered my question. It isn't always appropriate for me to upvote every answer, and I can only accept one answer. Giving a "thanks" comment on every answer appears to be frowned upon.  So, what's the etiquette?
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Why is there no possibility to make upvotes onymously? Seeing positive votes from credible other members would highly increase transparency and trust in answers.   Has anything like that been tried out so far?   What strong opinions are against such an option? Why not even make such behavior default?
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I recently asked a question that got a quick answer that was wrong.   After a few comments with the answerer, he stopped defending his position (because it does not work).  But the answer is still there to mislead others.  So I am left wondering if I should do anything about it or just let the eventual downvoting take its course.
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I think it would be cool if a question would eventually open up to moderators to accept answers on the user's behalf, once a time period has passed. The asking user would get the rep score for the accept.  I know I've seen questions successfully answered with lots of upvotes and no accepted answer that sit there for months unaccepted. This would give superusers a little more functionality and would tie up a lot of loose ends.  What do you think?
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Lately I've been getting some good answers to some specific questions. However, I've been hesitating on what answer I should accept.  Do I go with the short quick answer or do I accept a later answer where someone has elaborated on the previous answer with some code?  It's not really important but it kind of bugs me to not accept an answer when people have taken the trouble of replying.  Here's two examples:
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Recently, I have answered a few questions that were upvoted by factors more than the accepted answer, but not accepted. , at the time of my writing, has an accepted answer that the asker said was not what he wanted. I don't know why. In the future, when people view this, people might only look at the accepted answer and move on. Would it be possible to have a "community accepted" feature? Maybe only the people at the top can vote to accept it or something. How much rep, if any, should go to that person?