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Can we increase the number of close-votes per day?

Recenly, in Chat it was suggested by an SF moderator: One side issue is, given the volume we're seeing now, I don't think users have enough daily close votes. The response by an SE employee was: …
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7 votes

On the paucity of voting

Up and down voting on answers mean: this answer is or isn't useful. …
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3 votes

Does the serial down voting algorithm take previous behavior into account?

There was a time when I did a lot of upvoting certain people to see if I could find patterns that wouldn't get my upvotes reversed. There didn't seem to be any "memory" in the algorithm - I only trig …
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2 votes

"normal" close vote share

discussion, I think it would be useful to more precisely define (maybe with examples) what each of the close vote reasons means for "us" on SF... ...but in the meantime, I generally err on the side of voting … It takes 5 to close, and although there's sometimes a bit of pile-on close-voting, it's rare for a good question to get closed, and of those, many get re-opened after an edit or clarification in Chat or …
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What are the real voting stats? And have the numbers really gone up that much?

during the election, 474 visited the election page, and 208 voted voretaq7, Chris S, Iain elected But for the current election, there are already 456 people who've earned the Constituent badge (by voting
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24 votes
3 answers
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How to deal with bad questions? VOTE!

Why you should all (ok, almost all) vote more: Admittedly, when it comes to voting, I'm a bit like the porcupine in the Dilbert cartoon at the end of this post... … This isn't a rant Obviously, I think about voting a lot. …
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7 votes

Observation: Up-Voting appears to be more much rare here than on SU

Although I think more voting (up and down) would be a good thing, I don't think it should be done to make SF "warmer" and more welcoming. … I think one reason for low voting is that professional sysadmins usually don't have time and money to do everything, so we prioritize quickly and harshly. …
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0 votes
1 answer
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The cleanup of old, bad questions is costing me votes!

At least, I think it's costing me votes. My understanding is that when questions are deleted, votes cast on the Q or any As are taken out of a person's vote counts. That's actually not a terrible th …
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1 vote

Daily Vote Limit Reached at 38 Votes

Once the system has decided you've got only 5 votes left, you can't "earn" any more bonus votes by voting on questions. …
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3 votes

Since when are question votes different from answer votes?

Ah, should've figured this would be on meta.SO. Separate vote pools for questions and answers So now it's 30 votes per day for either questions or answers + 10 additional votes only for questions.
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4 votes
1 answer
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Since when are question votes different from answer votes?

Just got this message: Have question votes always been treated differently than votes on answers?
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2 votes
1 answer
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Does the voters tab show everyone who's voted?

If it's everyone, it seems like 14 people voting so far this week is very very low. …
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Possible voting options

A think this is just one of the growing pains StackExchange is going to face in the future. Migrating questions between sites made some sense when there are were only the original 3, but Webapps, Gad …
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