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### Why are all the answers to this question downvoted? [closed]

I've recently noted that all the correct and helpful answers to this question are downvoted by a single-person. I don't have any proof but, I am pretty sure that the downvotes are given by a single ...
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### Incentive for downvoting?

I'm fairly new to this site, so I'm somewhat confused by the idea behind downvoting, especially considering that one gives up some of one's own reputation to downvote something else. What incentive ...
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### Why is the close-vote review flooded with old questions?

The queue for close votes is currently filled with months-old questions, and is quite large - when I recently clicked on the queue, there were $39$ items waiting for review. Of the first $10$ or so ...
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### Is there an issue with this question?

After spending quite a bit of time trying to crack a problem about the convexity of a multivariate function by myself, I asked this question a couple of days ago: Convexity of difference of log-sum-...
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### Who is user####### and why has (s)he given 871 downvotes in just 17 days as a user? [closed]

Given that some of us have been getting uncommented downvotes on our answers - I alone have had 7 in the past two days - I'd like to know a little more about this user and the faults (s)he apparently ...
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### Answers to basic questions which are too detailed

Often, users on this site ask very basic mathematical questions (in the order of what is the integral of a polynomial, or maybe a trigonometric equation which can be solved by looking up the ...
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### Is there a policy regarding the deletion of one's own question?

I sometimes find myself asking questions that are of the following kind: I am looking for confirmation because I'm not sure about something After reading an answer/comment I realise I've overlooked ...
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### Off-topic question that was reopened with no improvement.

I do not understand why this question were reopened? Could anyone explain me it please. I voted to close it and it seems to me that it is "off-topic". If this is not so, then I don't see any point in ...
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Many times I have seen a question put on hold where the stated reason has no relation to the question. It looks like a formula statement. "" put on hold as off-topic by StubbornAtom, Leucippus, ...
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### Who's digging up dirt in the close queue?

The close queue contains an extremely large number of old, answered (accepted) and downvoted questions. Even if these questions should have been closed, some of them now have a good answer worth ...
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### Two feature requests regarding deleted questions

There are two feature requests that I have been meaning to make for quite some time about deleted questions. Is it appropriate to downvote answers for the sake of deleting a question? talks about ...
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### How to repair the close-delete pipeline?

In a recent discussion the issue of scale of deletions was brought up. I remarked there that over the $12$-month period ending in February this year, $10$K users deleted $218$ questions altogether, ...