Questions tagged [voting]
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Data on voting by 'association bonus only' users
There's recently been some discussion of the potential impact on voting of users whose only MathOverflow reputation comes from the network association bonus.
I asked the SE team about this, and ...
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Voting on meta questions to indicate agreement or disagreement
We've previously discussed the meaning of a downvote on meta, and I think that's worth reading before discussing anything further here.
I don't at all like that perfectly reasonable questions (...
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2% of viewers vote?
Maybe this is not possible to quantize accurately,
but might it be the case that
Q. Approximately 2% of those who view a posting on MO vote +/- on the question?
That's approximately true for my ...
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Time cutoff for changing vote
The stackexchange software currently imposes a cutoff on changing votes, i.e. a vote cannot be changed after a certain time has elapsed. I can understand the rationale behind having such a policy as ...
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Do we use the downvote button more than other sites?
Is there data available (besides crawling thousands of questions) on how often we use the downvote button, and how quickly?
The motivation for this question is Carlo Beenakker's recent answer on MOM.
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Is universal public visibility of up-votes/reputation/badges really beneficial?
Parabolically, suppose that Quentin asks a question that may as well be well-thought-out and interesting; suppose Albert and Beatrice work out answers A and B, that Albert's answer looks good and ...
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What does "serial upvoting reversed" mean?
In my reputation history I see that I lost 75 points of reputation because of "serial upvoting reversed." What does that mean?
It seems that this question was asked in passing in this discussion and ...
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Changing mind about upvoting a comment
If I change my mind about upvoting a comment, is there any way to cancel my upvote there?
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Sticky vote controls at MO?
This SE meta post mentions a test of sticky vote controls.
I couple of days back I remember that I had sticky vote controls for a short while but then it returned back to normal.
The linked post ...
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undoing an upvote versus reversing it
I recently upvoted an answer to one of my questions. The answer was wrong, but I thought it was helpful enough to earn an upvote.
A couple of hours later, the answer changed significantly and (in ...
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Is "reciprocal voting" permitted?
I've noticed that when I ask a question on MathOverflow, or any StackExchange Site, and I either upvote or downvote an answer written by a high-reputation user, regardless of how old the question and ...
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Why downvote on meta?
I only posted two questions on meta, both fact based and both about the way MO is supposed to work. Today, I realized that I have received three down-votes. I have a feeling about down-votes (and up-...
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Is there a way to see the up/down vote spread on all questions asked by a given user?
When you as a user get some sufficiently high reputation, you can see the up/down vote spread of any question/answer. Now suppose there's some user, X, you're interested in. On their page you can sort ...
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Poll for time cutoff for changing vote
Looking at the number of votes this and this question has received, I would like to ask everyone interested to cast their vote whether they are happy with the current time cutoff for changing votes on ...
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What do you see to upvote an answer?
Question is as in the title?
What makes you to up vote an answer?
Most of my answers are with $0$ upvotes. I am trying to understand the reason. One of the reasons could be that mathematics that I ...
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Area 51 Proposal: Math Challenges
On September 1st, I started a proposal on Area 51, for users to share, discuss and answer mathematical challenges that they have. I did this because I felt that these types of problems have no place ...
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Hinting votes for CW contributions
I would like to learn about opinions about visually indicating votes for contributions to community wiki; what I have in mind is something analogous to the green button in the "menue-line" ...