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user400188
user400188
10:59 AM
I have been told that this is the appropriate place to ask about the source of downvotes on a question, without flooding the meta with such questions. (1 of 2)
Would anyone care to take a look at this question of mine, to take explain/take a guess at why it has been downvoted? (2 of 2) math.stackexchange.com/questions/3785900/…
 
user400188
user400188
11:29 AM
I must say that it drives me insane how hard it is to ask a question on math S.E. I spent all the time between 15:10 and 18:49 writing up the question. Only 5 minutes was on the answer itself, and the rest was me trying to comply with the site rules.

According to my last post, it is now 20:59. This is the amount of time a single, 5 minute question can waste, and the result is still a negative score.

I honestly do not know what more I could have done. Should I have written in bold letters that it is a self answer question and does not need an attempt? Should I leave a comment explaining th…
 
 
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user1729
user1729
9:41 PM
@user400188 I suspect the reason for the downvotes is simply that this is a self-answered question (although noone commented so I can't say for sure). Self-answered questions are surprisingly controversial (see meta for more details).
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user1729
user1729
9:53 PM
See, for example, [this](ttps://math.meta.stackexchange.com/q/29344/10513) question from 2018, and the caveat to this relevant answer to a more recent question.
 

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