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Why score is reduced on voting down for the person reporting?
First: For spam, you can cast a flag instead, there is a specific flag for 'spam - Exists only to promote a product or service'.
For downvotes, the user being downvoted gets -2 reps, the person voting ...
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Search for old answers
But, of course! Search is one of the most powerful tools we have here. To get your posts, you simply type user:me, and you'll get all your posts!
Nice, but how do I get only my answers, and not my ...
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On downvoting Comment should be compulsary?
Personally, no I don't think so. A down vote in and of itself should trigger that something might be wrong with my answer. Review it to see if it matches with the intent of the question. Did I supply ...
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Do we have a tag to use with Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) related questions?
Just tag the question with it and the tag will be created. If someone in the community has a better tag that is already used, they can ask for a merge of the two terms
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Adding a section for Nintex related issues on the left side would be useful?
All paid-for third party products related to SharePoint have their own support channels, and sometimes even their own forum. As in the case with Nintex, where I also have an account and have asked ...
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Can I bookmark a question and check back later?
Yes, click the little star button below the up/down vote arrows to favorite a post. This will bookmark it for you.
To see all your favorited posts, simply go to your profile and click on favorites.
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Christmas collaborations and gamification continue all over the year?
The fun of adding additional badges represented by hats every year wouldn't be as fun if it was available all year around. My guess is, when a lot of users have vacation due to the holiday, SE want to ...
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Ability to favorite comments & answers
Unfortunately only questions can be favorited, and afaik there are no plans to make it possible to favorite answers. Your only options are to
favorite the question
manage bookmarks yourself by ...
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Extended (step by step) explanation in answers
I'd say summarize those steps. I think what we don't like seeing are just plain link answers that can eventually become dead links, and have before many times. If you summarize the steps involved, ...
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No ask question icon
Well, that's odd. But not all that troublesome. Our sister site
https://ux.stackexchange.com/ use no icons whatsoever, but make the Ask action look like a button. Here, we use a different color to ...
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Create Tag - reputation required - why 1250?
It "should be" lower, based on this answer from Adam Lear.
However, looking into the matter, creating tag synonyms require 1250 rep and creating tags require 300 rep. So my guess is your looking at ...
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