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A lot of people are dogging acconrad, but I have to agree with him. I was having a problem with rails, and I found the answer on stackoverflow. The right answ

A lot of people are dogging acconrad, but I have to agree with him. I was having a problem with rails, and I found the answer on stackoverflow. The right answer had no upvotes, so I figured I would upvote it; this way the original "asker" would know it is the right answer. However, it said I didn't have enough rep to upvote... I'm sure he'll figure it out but this would save him from checking the other "solutions".

phwd 16y ago
This is to prevent "voting rings" using new accounts. It is a small measure of activity. All it would have taken from you was 15 rep, 1 Upvoted Answer (+10) and 1 Upvoted Question (+5) or 1 Question Upvoted (3 times) (+15) or 3 Upvoted Questions (+15) (It is actually 14, since you start off with 1 rep) That is really not a lot of activity/work needed from an individual. Most likely a next user would have seen the answer on rails and voted by now.
smackfu 16y ago
The weird thing is how it doesn't tell you that you can't upvote until you try to do it.
- cruise02 16y ago
  It tells you in the FAQ. http://stackoverflow.com/faq#reputation http://stackoverflow.com/faq#reputation
  - smackfu 16y ago
    I meant that it is surprising that they don't hide the controls that you can't use.
alanh 16y ago
Hey, let’s all downvote alexsherrick and tell him he’s an idiot for not understanding site policy instead of recognizing that he is pointing out an undesirable effect of that policy!