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Is systematically downvoting the posts of some person who downvoted you permitted?
No, it's not permitted, and those votes will be automatically reversed once detected. Give it 24 hours, then post here if this doesn't happen.
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Please stop downvoting perfectly good questions about actual photography
Agreed. This is not an opinion-based question, this is a question about the creative process. Which is subjective, but just as photography itself.
Gear-related questions are boring, common all over ...
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Can a new user downvote answers, and is that flagged as question activity?
marg's "answer" was a question asking for help installing Nik software. It was flagged as not-an-answer, and I deleted it.
Regarding the downvote on your answer to the same question, it wasn'...
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Why is my answer downvoted while another answer I think is wrong upvoted?
Your answer was likely downvoted because it contained a broad rebuke of the use of p2p downloading for any reason. Because the question was specifically about darktable, "Do not use p2p/torrent ...
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Why is my answer downvoted while another answer I think is wrong upvoted?
P2P/Torrents are sometimes used for legitimate downloads as well. You shouldn't pirate Lightroom, but if there is a download of the non-cracked installer on a P2P service, there's absolutely nothing ...
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Why is my answer downvoted while another answer I think is wrong upvoted?
I didn't vote but your
Do not use p2p/torrent to download LR software!
did sound odd. Nothing wrong with P2P per se, even to download LR software if you have the license. If it's a warning that ...
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Why is my answer downvoted while another answer I think is wrong upvoted?
I'm not sure I understand your complaint.
Your statement, that one should not use p2p software to download Darktable, is misleading and confusing.
The other statement, that it's not illegal to ...
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Is it appropriate to downvote well-meaning, on-topic questions that don't fit the Stack Exchange format?
I think it would certainly help if we had an easier way to find and point others to any SE community guidelines regarding the appropriate reasons for downvoting a question.
I don't tend to downvote ...
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Can a new user downvote answers, and is that flagged as question activity?
Though this does not appear to be the case in this instance, it is possible for a user with editing privileges to edit an answer, remove their own previous upvote or downvote, then roll back the edit. ...
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Is it appropriate to downvote well-meaning, on-topic questions that don't fit the Stack Exchange format?
I've always assumed part of the downvoting was because there might be members who recognize that the question is off-topic or doesn't belong here, but don't have the 3k+ rep required to actually vote ...
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