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Can I see who Downvoted me on Stack Overflow?

Can I see who Downvoted me on Stack Overflow?

No, there isn’t. You could post a comment asking who downvoted, although the success rate of this isn’t particularly high (especially if the post is old, or an answer to an old question.

Is Stack Overflow anonymous?

Stack Overflow is a bit unusual in that our accounts are ultra lightweight. We don’t require registration; we allow essentially anonymous posting. We don’t require registration; we allow essentially anonymous posting.

Can you upvote yourself Stack Overflow?

No you can’t upvote your own questions and answers. Accepting your own answer also won’t raise your rep. I just looked, and, shockingly, this doesn’t seem to be a duplicate of any questions that were already asked on Meta Stack Overflow.

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Why do questions get Downvoted on stackoverflow?

Downvotes should be used to indicate issues with quality, effort, or accuracy of a post: Downvote questions that don’t show any research effort or don’t contain enough information to be clear and answerable. Some answers may not attempt to answer the question at all, and should be flagged.

How do people earn from Stack Overflow?

On the revenue side of things, Stack Overflow is funded through two main sources: Stack Overflow Talent (job-finding) and advertising. Stack Overflow has now also added a Stack Overflow Teams product as well, which allows companies to clone the Q&A model for their own personal use.

Can you upvote your own posts?

Of course you should not be able to vote on your own posts. It is a given you think your own posts are helpful and / or well researched, that’s why you posted them in the first place. But the point of voting is that other people think your post is great too.

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Do I lose karma when I Downvote?

You get score when people upvote your posts or comments, and you lose karma when you are downvoted by the people. If a post or a comment receives enough downvotes, it disappears from the thread.

Why does everyone Downvote on stack overflow?

Who is buying Stack Overflow?

Prosus
The legendary Q&A website for programmers (and probably one of the most copy-and-pasted sites on the internet) Stack Overflow is being acquired. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Prosus (the primary shareholder of Chinese gaming mega co/WeChat developer, Tencent) will acquire Stack Overflow for $1.8 billion.

Is there a way to check for upvoter / downvoter anomalies?

There are scripts that run that check for voting anomalies that will indicate when a user has a high rate of up-votes or down-votes from a particular user, however these instances are rare and handled by the team. Confirmed that the Upvoter / Downvoter UserId ‘s are zapped from the Votes table, e.g. by running this data.stackexchange query.

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Are upvoter / downvoter userid’s zapped from the votes table?

Confirmed that the Upvoter / Downvoter UserId ‘s are zapped from the Votes table, e.g. by running this data.stackexchange query. Note however that ‘favourited’ and bounty Userid’s seem to be retained 🙂 (Thanks, mom!)

Will I go after people who downvoted me?

No, I will not go after those who downvoted me, but it’s interesting to know, anyway. Voting is anonymous and not even the moderators have access to this information. The only people I suspect that can see is the Stack Exchange development team.