Questions tagged [voting]
Peer voting on questions and answers is the primary way users gain reputation, and also how many items are sorted to the top.
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Why vote for Code Review questions?
On other Stack Exchange/Stack Overflow sites, voting is used as a form of quality control. High quality questions get lots of votes and are seen by many, low quality questions get negative scores and ...
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Votes on a Community Challenge come to a draw, what should we do?
Currently in the April 2017 Community Challenge selection,
we have two answers that have been drawing for a while now. Or at least near enough.
And so it got me thinking, what should we do if two ...
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Your vote matters!
For a few months now I've been collecting specific data on the metrics of all SE sites throughout the network, and there's a disturbing fact that has arisen.
This data isn't yet public on my end, but ...
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Distributing "welcome votes" to first posts
When I review first posts in the first posts part of the review queues (found in the top right corner for some users), I will often upvote a first post from a new user if it is good enough.
For ...
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Finding somewhat hidden gems in answers
A typical situation I feel happens from time to time is that a question got some response quickly, and the OP accepted one of these answers. Then a little later, maybe half a day, a new answer emerges,...
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How can I interpret answers with no/few upvotes or comments, on questions with reasonable traffic?
I'm new to both this site and to real-life code reviews, but I've got heaps of experience with other SE sites. In a similar line to How should I interpret upvotes when I get no other responses?, I'm ...
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Call of Duty II - We're still on a mission
Briefing.
November 16, 2013. In response to a not-so-shiny Stack Exchange Community Managers' review of our favorite Stack Exchange site and seeing that about 10% of the site's content consisted of ...
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Is the SE voting system insufficient for CR answers?
The question that prompted this is Add or view pattern with MVVM (but I think this situation is pretty common).
There, you have two answers: one is long, thorough and overall great; the other is much ...
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What's the point of voting on "questions"?
On this site (code-review), the best questions sometimes contain the worst possible code. I'm not the only one who noticed this. On any other code-related SE site, questions with code that causes ...
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Is it too easy getting upvotes?
I'm trying to be an active member of Code Review (though I'm only good in some aspects of .Net) and it seems that upvotes are way easier to get here than on StackOverflow (for example). I've seen ...
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Are we blind upvoting answers based on answerer reputation or are my answers no good?
Admittedly, Objective-C isn't very popular on Code Review. There certainly aren't a whole lot of answerers. I am basically the only regular Objective-C answerer.
I'd like to think that my answers to ...
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Blind upvoting of posts on Code Review
On Code Review, I've noticed that there is a blind upvoting of posts. People judge the question by the heading, not by the effort.
Is this a proper way of upvoting posts?
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I spent a couple of votes. Why am I not showing up in the "voters" page?
In the Users section there's a page that shows the top voters for the week.
I asked a question and voted on the best answers I got, but I'm not showing up on the voters page.
Why is that? Is this a ...
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Should we kill Santa?
Santa is frequently found in The 2nd Monitor. Santa can do magic, and sprinkle upvotes to all the boys and girls that have been good reviewers this year.
Santa generates quite a bunch of reputation ...
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What are the correct actions to take when there is a 'bad' answer?
When there is an answer you feel is 'bad', what are the correct actions to take?
For example, the question:
Similar methods using loops
has an answer:
If you always use both functions together it ...
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