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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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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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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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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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