Should it ever be possible that a question and an answer have this much disparity? I don't understand how a question "is not good enough" to have positive net votes, but the answers to the question can have scores of 3,5,9 and 10.

Edited out part was a duplicate of this question.

• There even is a badge called reversal (questions -5 answer +20). – quid Aug 3 '14 at 0:29
• @900sit-upsaday: I have edited out the duplicate part of my question – Kyle Gannon Aug 3 '14 at 0:52
• Okay, I retracted the closevote. But with one question left, numbering did not make much sense, so I reformatted. – user147263 Aug 3 '14 at 0:59
• @900sit-upsaday: That's fine, thank you. – Kyle Gannon Aug 3 '14 at 1:04
• If you click the vote count (I'm not sure if you can, yet - I think that's at 1000 rep), it's at +5 / -5. So the question has been voted on quite a bit. – user61527 Aug 3 '14 at 1:50
• I’m ignorant about early August developments, but now all (IMHO) poorly considered or incompetent answers in the “uncountable” thread are now at 0, whereas the two most competent answers were at 10 when I came today. Is the problem defused? – Incnis Mrsi Dec 15 '14 at 11:50
• @IncnisMrsi: Yes! When you get to 1000 reputation, you will be able to see the upvotes and downvotes on the question. This question received +8 and -7. Some people really disliked the question for some reason or another. When I first stumbled upon the question, I thought it had received 1 upvote (my own) and maybe 1 downvote. I guess it was just very controversial. – Kyle Gannon Dec 15 '14 at 20:21
• @Kyle Gannon numbers of “+” and “−”, not persons, you mean? BTW, there is now some activity in the thread, but seemingly all I-do-not-likeists already expended their downvote at the question and can’t drag it down now. – Incnis Mrsi Dec 15 '14 at 20:30

As T.Bongers said in a comment, the question to which you refer has $+5-5$ votes. When you reach 1000 reputation, you will be able to see the vote breakdown on each post. Meanwhile, you can see the chain of events, including voting, on the timeline of the question. There is no visible link to the timeline, so you'd have to either manifacture the URL, install a userscript, or (perhaps the easiest) use this bookmarklet.