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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
downvote .
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Examples
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Seconds after you submit any article with Christian related content, it will receive several downvotes.
Promoting a book or blog in the Darwinian underworld of Reddit.com nissa_amas_katoj 2009
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Apparently (based on the 2 downvotes), my question annoyed people.
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One free, simple scripting program to create automatic downvotes of certain topics or news posters is called "Greasemonkey", which is commonly used on large social news sites such as Reddit.
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As one example of a publicly-available downvote bot, this script automatically downvotes any stories on 9/11, Gaza, torture, Guantanamo and a host of other topics, downvotes certain posters, and engages in other forms of cyber warfare.
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The problem of undeserved downvotes has been discussed many many times:
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The bigger problem is that the purpose of downvotes is unclear.
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A vote from a user who has written good answers in the past carries more weight both upvotes and downvotes.
TechCrunch MG Siegler 2011
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I wouldn't mind seeing the "bury" remove a "digg" rather than upvotes add one and downvotes do nothing.
digg.com: Top News Digg 2011
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"Also, wow, look at the sudden rush of downvotes."
Top News Digg 2012
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If it helps, it gets a LOT better after a few years of having a job, especially in an industry you want to stay in. being a teenaged bartender, but for every upvote it gets, it gets an equal measure of downvotes.
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