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-30 votes would be extremely unusual on SO. That amount of votes even including upvotes in such a short time would be almost impossible. The only way you get th
by fabian2k 2y ago
-30 votes would be extremely unusual on SO. That amount of votes even including upvotes in such a short time would be almost impossible. The only way you get that kind of massive voting is either if the question hits the "Hot Network Questions" or if an external site like HN with a high population of SO users links to it and drives lots of traffic. Questions with a negative score won't hit the hot network questions, so it seems very unlikely to me that it could be voted on that much.
- wizzwizz4 2y agoYou can get +30 from the HNQ list, but -30 is much harder, because the association bonus only gives you 101 rep, and the threshold for downvoting is 125.
- o11c 2y agoI don't think I've ever seen anything, no matter how bad, go below -5, and most don't go below -1. Once a question is downvoted: - it's less likely that the question even gets shown - it's less likely that people will even click on it - it's less likely that people who think it's bad will bother to vote on it, since the votes are already doing the right thing - if it's really bad, it will be marked for deletion before it gets that many downvotes anyway SO has its problems but I don't even recognize half the things people complain about.