Unnecessary down votes [modified]

[Albert Holguin]

yep.. i downvote when appropriate (like a wrong answer), but rarely on something like that post...

[saxenaabhi6]

I got more then 20 -16s and lots of -4s and -2s only one person (dan) came forward and openly said he didn't like the post. remaining no idea :confused:

[JimmyRopes]

" I am already 300+ points down because of that post" If it will make you feel better think of it as -300 points up because of that post. In any case get a life and don't worry about some silly reputation on the internet.

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[Luc Pattyn]

That sure is harmless, but please keep in mind a number of people around here don't like text speak nor sloppy spelling. IMO not many would downvote for such reasons, unless it was a programming question showing a total lack of care to both content and style. I glanced at your recent message list and saw nothing extraordinary as far as scores go, except for the one here that is. I guess poll messages are visited by a huge number of people, much more so than anything else in the forums. So I can only suggest you move on; AFAICT it will be completely forgotten in a few days, activity here slows down as the week progresses, and there will be another poll next Monday. :beer:

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[Albert Holguin]

that's true about the polls being visited by a lot more people than any other type of post

[saxenaabhi6]

thanks luc actually every time someone upvote me (like you did just now), The exact no. of -16 votes pops up in my reputation points to balance that upvote. If a person cannot vote multiple times, i really wonder how come exact no of different people come and downvote me every time. Anyways moving on as you said... ;) cheers!

[Luc Pattyn]

As I said votes are weighted, so in a programming forum, when I upvote an answer, it gets 40 points as an answer upvote is worth 5 points, but with platinum Authority my weight would be 8 (4 for gold, 2 for silver, 1 for white/bronze). In the rep history page, it would show up as "Programming Forum Message Upvoted", 40, Authority. In the score, it would raise the floating-point number, and it would increment the vote count shown by 1 (not by the weight!). I don't know the exact details for messages in the poll; would be not 5 but somewhat less, maybe 2. And might be Debator color, or Participant color, I just don't know, not all the details are documented in the FAQ. If you suspect there is a bug in the rep system, you might take a screen shot of your rep history page, and e-mail that to Chris, he can be reached at chris(at)codeproject(dot)com. Make sure you add a reference to this thread, as well as to your message that started all this. :)

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[Albert Holguin]

Here's a 5 :cool:

[thatraja]

saxenaabhi6 wrote:

I am already 300+ points down

At least you have a life. :sigh:

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[CS2011]

Are you happy now ? I have upvoted evey single post of your's 5+. :)

[Albert Holguin]

i just gave you a bunch of points, don't sweat the small stuff... keep contributing! :-D

[Tarun K S]

Countered. :thumbsup:

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[R Giskard Reventlov]

Keep your head down and your mouth shut when this happens: bleating on about it will only bring more down voting and people do it because they can so man-up, shut up and move on.

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[NormDroid]

To make matters worse he's from Australia and seems mature enough on how 'to play the game'.

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[Rob Grainger]

Is shouting "first" really contributing anything? Lots of message boards get overrun with this, OK its a minor annoyance, but if I ever did that here I'd strongly expect to get downvoted. Some individuals seem to regard this as some kind of competitive sport. Some other people get a kick out of posting the millionth message to a board. Not naming names ;-) (ps. I wasn't one of the downvoters - I don't go in for doing such things anonymously personally).

[Lost User]

-16 is the amount of rep points you lose if a platinum memeber downvotes you once.

[Slacker007]

I have posted stuff here that has been voted down more times than I care to think about. It is all part of the game. You are going to have to get thicker skin if this is really bothering you. The downvoting will die down and the water will be still in no time at all....Take a deep breath, in with the good - out with the bad. :) I think you realize now that when someone says "I voted first" it is not received very well here because it "comes off" as something a 12 year old would post...it's annoying. -- Just a thought. ;)

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[Dan Neely]

Slacker007[^] and viaducting[^] have also explained their reasoning. You're free to delete your post to stop the down votes...

3x12=36 2x12=24 1x12=12 0x12=18