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Inconsistency in MO votes

Yesterday I sent this question to a friend of mine. He told me he upvoted my question. When I go to my notifications, I don't see the vote. But when I go to the history of my question, it can be seen ...
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A fuller story of up/down-voting

MO-participants should appreciate the difference between information about  +1 vote   and   +4 vs -3 votes.   This is especially the case of closed questions. I hope that MO will implement the more ...
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3 votes
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How can this question have more downvotes than views?

An off-topic question recently appeared on the main site. It was heavily downvoted and got deleted after only a few minutes. But at one point before the question was deleted, I noticed it had been ...
Julian Rosen's user avatar
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9 votes
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Non-accepted answers "better" than the accepted one - what to do?

This seems to be a rare phenomenon, actually I only know one example of it. The question Alternate definition of ordinals ? is very interesting. It has three answers, one accepted by OP with zero ...
მამუკა ჯიბლაძე's user avatar
31 votes
2 answers
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Can I see who voted for what after I die?

I would like to know who has up- and (most importantly!) downvoted my questions. Will I find out after I die? What do different religions/beliefs say about this? I would happily convert to see the ...
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2 votes
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How to keep track of questions or answers I upvoted/downvoted?

There doesn't seem to be a favorite button for answers, so the natural remedy seems to be allowing tracing of vote history. Is this something already possible that I am missing?
John Jiang's user avatar
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11 votes
2 answers
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Is there a way to find which MO questions/answers point to which others?

Every once in a while, an old question of mine (e.g., "$C^1$ isometric embedding of flat torus into $\mathbb{R}^3$"—approaching 5 yrs old) sees a minor flurry of votes. I presume this is because ...
Joseph O'Rourke's user avatar
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Vote count in Users->voters is off

Right now, my MathOverflow user page shows 12,878 votes, but the page with people's overall vote counts shows a mere 8674. I see similar discrepancies with other people's accounts. Is there some ...
S. Carnahan's user avatar
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