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30 questions linked to/from Is it appropriate to downvote answers for the sake of deleting a question?
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Requests for Reopen & Undeletion Votes, etc. (volume 10/2012 - 12/2014) [duplicate]
The purpose of this thread is to help focus the attention of the community on posts that may require exceptional handling. This includes requests for reopen and undeletion votes. A request should be ...
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2014 Moderator Election Q&A - Question Collection
In connection with the moderator elections, we will be holding a Q&A with the candidates. This will be an opportunity for members of the community to pose questions to the candidates on the topic ...
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Is CRUDE healthy?
The chatroom CRUDE stands for Close, Reopen, Undelete, Delete, Edit. Is the way this room is currently used healthy for Maths Stack Exchange?
There is a core of users which can be counted on one ...
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What do you think is the largest problem facing Math.SE today (July 2015)?
I think it can safely be said that Math.StackExchange (and MathOverflow and perhaps some of the sister sites on the SE network) are the best resources for (English-speaking) people with objective math ...
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Vote early, vote often
I would like to echo a post that Scott Morrison made on Tex.SE. I think this is definitely something we are experiencing here on Math.SE. A link to the post here, and the text of the post:
"I'm a ...
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Is there an MSE-like site that is more pleasant to work in? Or are there other solutions?
The Problem: It becomes more difficult to help people on a site in which there is mass closing of questions. And I am disturbed that a small group of people is engaged in trying to delete permanently ...
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Downvoting to order?
I have stumbled with the following in a user profile.
I use downvotes to organize answers to a question. By voting up I bring up the answers that I consider more important, useful, or that I think ...
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2014 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire
In connection with the moderator elections, we are holding a Q&A thread for the candidates. Questions collected from an earlier thread have been compiled into this one, which shall now serve as ...
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Under what circumstances is it appropriate to delete a question that has received a good answer?
I would like to have a discussion about the following question:
When is it appropriate to delete a question which has been closed as "missing context or details," but which has generated ...
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Deleting questions with answers
A few days ago I posted an answer on this question. After that the original poster deleted it. I undeleted it because it is a terrible idea to delete questions which people have taken the time to ...
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What to do when other users answer low-quality questions?
This question is related to many I've seen on here about "low-quality posts," so I apologize in advance if it's an exact duplicate of one I haven't found, or simply too close to others. My question is ...
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Should an answer be downvoted if it is correct (or almost correct)?
Can it ever be justified in down voting a technically correct answer, or an answer with a minor error that can be corrected when brought to the attention of the person who answered the question. I ...
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What is going on with undeletion lately?
Some questions have been undeleted that... frankly, shouldn't have been. 10k users can see the whole list here, but here they are for the pleasure of everyone else:
https://math.stackexchange.com/...
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I miss 10 rep points
This time I'm pretty sure: I had 9702 yesterday and two upvotes on an answer and one on a question. But my total rep is 9717. Ten more or less don't matter, but strange it seems to me...
I gained ten ...
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Does one need to consider the details of the autodeletion script when downvoting?
It is possible that downvoting a post results in deletion of of a question; the precise rules are however a bit tricky.
Before downvoting, is it necessary to check if a downvote would lead to (very ...
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