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For questions primarily asking about downvotes, best practices on when they should or should not be used, and how to handle being downvoted. (See also: the [up-votes] tag on Meta.)
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I believe I was a victim of sockpuppetry. Who do I report this to?
Oh, the sacred flame vs swarm question. Nope, looks legit. New 5e questions get a lot of views, the top answer got 27 votes, and there’s other rules-wrong answers that pulled a bunch of downvotes to …
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Am I getting serial downvotes, or are my answers suddenly this bad?
The site has become stricter about unsupported answers, and your answers are largely unsupported.
Please note all this is not to criticize you, but to explain what's going on so you can adapt to it.
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Downvoting answers not fitting an edited question anymore?
Downvote. It's not relevant how much of a brilliant well crafted piece of prose an answer is - if it doesn't answer the question as posed, it's not a good answer. Upvoting and downvoting are not "rew …
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What should we do about people downvoting to try and push subcommunities they don't like off...
Nothing
While we affirm RPG.SE embraces all playstyles, there's no way to force everyone to always vote according to that.
In this case the comment could be flagged as unkind and deleted, but that d …
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Question "On Hold" but its already been answered, Negative votes on new user posts, And gene...
See Can we improve the way we treat newcomers? for a discussion about putting questions on hold, and the new-users tag for previous discussions of all your points. The short form is that:
The rep sy …
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Question "On Hold" but its already been answered, Negative votes on new user posts, And gene...
I'm going to add a second answer that gets to the real problem you have. You think your problem is that everyone's being mean and closing your question. The real problem is that your question is inc …
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Accepted
Why was I downvoted?
I would assume all the downvotes are for people agitated that you seem to be deliberately trying to reinterpret English, logic, and/or math to rules lawyer an advantage.
I’ve downvoted it for the sa …
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