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 do replies to "Advice" posts have 2 thumbs up/down widgets? [closed]
On an "Advice" post (but not "Best Practice", etc), why does each reply have two thumbs up/down widgets?
For example: Valid but unspecified state. What is specified then?
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AI assist will lower site engagement, needs vote buttons
AI assist lacking vote buttons adds an extra barrier between finding an answer useful and upvoting said answer and its associated question. That may not seem like much but I hypothesize very few ...
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Please provide some indication/differentiation for 'free' votes not affecting reputation to reduce user confusion
Posting this as a dedicated feature request based on staff recommendation here.
Please differentiate somehow between free votes and 'real' votes. Preferably, this would be visible when looking at the ...
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Unable to vote unless I clear my browser cache [duplicate]
I usually vote on question and answers on stackoverflow but today it was not working, without any message displayed.
I could vote in https://meta.stackoverflow.com and in https://meta.stackexchange....
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Why were provably incorrect answers upvoted and a provably correct answer downvoted without any feedback? [closed]
I don't understand most of the voting activity on this page.
SELECT rows with a date column formatted as m/d/Y between two submitted dates in m/d/Y format using CodeIgniter's query builder
On July 6th,...
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Should free votes from the free vote experiment contribute towards gold tag badges?
My understanding is that the implementation of free votes is such that any of the effects of normal (privileged) up/down-votes will apply, unless the dev team explicitly changes the logic to make that ...
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Stack Overflow Experiment: Safely expanding voting access
Update on October 16, 2025:
The Free votes Experiment has now graduated, allowing thousands more Stack Overflow users to contribute to the platform by voting on content. We get roughly 1,000 - 1,200 ...
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What's the meaning of unupvotes on an answer that was once the highest scoring one?
I have recently posted an answer to a question (a bountied one, if that matters).
As the only answer posted for this question, it got two upvotes, which signals to the rest of the community that a ...
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Why was this answer downvoted and what could be done to improve it?
I posted an answer that ended up with multiple downvotes that I believed would be genuinely helpful to the person asking the question, including a code sample.
What could I do to improve the answer?
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The post score says "Vote" on posts where I've already voted
When the change to the site was made so that numbers start at "vote", not 0 there was an answer posted that asked that if you aren't eligible to vote on, you won't be prompted to vote. It ...
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Why do the answers show the word "Vote" instead of showing the current vote counts? [duplicate]
I'm looking at this question Blur event seems to be getting lost if a mousedown event occurring before that delays it and there are two answers. But instead of the answers showing their current vote ...
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Is the voting experiment still an experiment? [duplicate]
The voting experiment announcement was to be monitored until 2024-12-23. This is probably why there was no feedback to my post there for ten days now. Hence, I am re-posting it as a separate question:
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How do I opt out or manually revert the new "vote encouragement" experiment?
I understand that it's an experiment for encouraging more voting, but I do not want to be a part of it.
How do I "opt-out" officially or unofficially (e.g., via a browser plugin)?
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Don't change the score back and forth when voting on a vote-locked post
When voting on a vote-locked post, we get this error-message:
You last voted on this question Sep 21 at 4:29. Your vote is now locked in unless this question is edited.
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Voting experiment to encourage people who rarely vote to upvote
Update April 10th, 2025
This feature has been graduated. Voting increased with both lower-rep users and high-rep users.
Update January 16th, 2025
This morning, we expanded the vote prompt and popover ...
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