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Downvotes are the community's way of telling peers that their content can be improved. Downvotes on meta may have different meanings.
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Why am I losing points when i downvote someone else?
No, that is how downvoting is supposed to work. The loss of a point for each downvote on an answer (in theory) disincentivizes people from downvoting out of spite.
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Downvoting for no stated reason is abusive
There is a discussion on meta.SO about this. While all the answers and comments are interesting, the answer given by Jeff Atwood, one of the two creators of the StackExchange network, says that people …
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Downvotes and the maximum daily reputation
If you mean "should" in the sense of "the system is designed to operate that way", then yes, the order of votes matters. This is similar to how downvotes and upvotes don't commute for new users, since …
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