How to Vote in Stack Exchange- WikiHow 

Voting in Stack Exchange is a pretty easy process, but it does involve you making a proper decision and knowing some basics. This article will show you how to Vote in Stack Exchange.

First Identify the Vote Button. It will be to your left of every question and Answer. You have to have the Voting Privilege to do this. Find out the privileges you need by going to the Privilege page [1], there is one on every site.

To Vote Up you need 15 rep. To Vote Down you need 125 rep.

Read the Question and Answer. Read the question and answer and decide the course of action, down vote or up vote. Some posts need a moderator to help to remove them or to make sure they get fixed up properly to the criteria of a site.

If the post does not follow criteria for the site, then flag it.

If you think the question adds nothing to the site, then down vote it.

If you think the question adds to the site then up vote it.

Now vote. After going over the question you now need to vote on it. While you don\'t have to vote on a question, you always can. Voting on a question will give it your opinion. The picture depicts a up vote.

You can see the votes you cast by looking at your profile under votes.

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There is a badge for your first downvote, and for using all your votes (40) for one day

People don\'t know what post you vote on unless you tell them.

You can tell how many votes a post has(either downvotes or upvotes) when you get 750 reputation.

After you vote on a question or answer and a large amount of time passes you can\'t revoke your vote unless the post gets edited. You can do this in some cases.

Never vote on someone\'s post without reading it or if you just don\'t like them. Also, don\'t vote on someone\'s posts repeatedly, because this is serial downvoting and can get you banned.

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