It's a bit hard to abuse, because you have to get additional upvotes after spending rep on downvotes. If you don't, they are not free.
From personal experience - if you hit the rep cap and then downvote, you might end up at 199 that day. And that means that the day is not counted towards certain...
@username901345 am I allowed to ask you this in the case that you have done something inappropriate?
Is this correct? This is about a political debate..."The man in the middle of the panel---his voice was being drowned out, sandwiched by the other two's ever such strident, spittle-spraying voices."
@MattЭллен Hence the question. :-) Should it be fixed? I've thought about posting it in meta, but I thought someone would actually know why it's set up that way.
@MattЭллен Hmm. Read it and it still looks like a bug to me.
@medica I don't rep cap often enough to think it's a bug :D There probably is a feature request or bug report for it, though. seems like something people would want sorted out.
Hmm. I can't see a question about it. Could be worth asking, @medica.
from hoopo, meaning hoop and hen meaning hen. hoophens were a unit of currency in the byzantium era. hens in a hoop, because they're easier to carry that way.
@JohanLarsson It's just before lunch for me so I thought that was some sort of food thing. "Why yes, I make nuget -all- the time. good for a snack or for a meal!"
@Mitch Nope. That's they know your assumptions but to further complicate things, the word can also mean business so that's more like big brother: they know your business.
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To all ye Europeans, if you want to halt corruption, you are advised to sign the grand petition against TTIP and CETA, which has already gathered 615,000 signatures: http://stop-ttip.org/sign/
However, in context the first clause is also a warning, and he is presumably threatening both people at the same time, so in the end there is no semantic difference.
There have been a number of discussions about "pity" or "sympathy" upvotes.
http://meta.stackexchange.com/search?q=pity+sympathy+upvote
That is, the idea that once a post is voted down to -1, some kind-hearted user will come by and upvote the post, no matter how terrible or wrong it may be, to ...
I know, this may sound like it is off-topic, but hear me out.
At Stack Overflow and here we get votes on posts, this is all stored in a tabular form.
E.g.:
post id voter id vote type datetime
------- -------- --------- --------
10 1 2 2000...
Anyway, there is a site I discovered that became unblocked, lol. I was surprised. I wonder what happened. Maybe they only want to block 100 and not 101, lol.
I know, this may sound like it is off-topic, but hear me out.
At Stack Overflow and here we get votes on posts, this is all stored in a tabular form.
E.g.:
post id voter id vote type datetime
------- -------- --------- --------
10 1 2 2000...
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