Share the article Vote Early, Vote Often. The following pages may also explain the importance of voting to users: Why is voting important? Beta progress, importance of reputation, and voting Following post provides some guidelines to users: What does voting mean and why is it important? ...

I am interested in the "official" community opinion on this and would be grateful for an open minded answer: Obvious enough community is at the very centre of the Stack Overflow ecosystem. It is "powered" and self-governed by reputation of its members. In a most typical social manner people get ...

I understand the purpose of up/downvoting answers -- some answers are better than others, some answers may be wrong, .etc. With regard to questions, though, there are other mechanisms to deal with "bad" questions: comments, close, flag. A poorly written question should be improved. A bad ques...

After spending some time on Meta Stack Overflow, I realized the voting system here is completely different. The votes are used for agreement or disagreement toward the question/request and the answer itself instead of quality. However, by downvoting a post, it will also decrease one's reputation ...