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There's already a popup notification reminding people to leave comments. Given that that doesn't exist, I kind of doubt that having a menu of possible reasons would help that much, and more importantl …

As long as we're not talking about something that a moderator would delete (e.g. doesn't answer the question, is spam) - and you wouldn't post those things in the first place anyway - then it's really …

Voting on questions isn't perfect, sure, but the fact is, we do get a lot of bad questions. Sometimes they come from people cheating on their homework, sometimes they come from people who don't know t …

I do think that the wrong and misleading comments on my answers threaten to mislead novice users who might really benefit from those answers, so I wish something could be done to remove those comme …

Everyone have questions and most of them may be stupid but we must encourage them right? Nope. Not at all. (This is the pithy version of what dmckee said.)

It's not possible to identify who cast a downvote.1 The best a person can do is to make an educated guess that a person who left a critical comment around the same time also cast the downvote, or som …

No, you should not take serial downvoting to indicate anything about whether your answers are bad. This type of downvoting is often targeted at the person and does not reflect the quality of the answe …

Only the person who downvoted knows why they did so. There's no way of knowing their reason unless they choose to reveal it. (Note that technically, even if someone claims to be the downvoter, it is p …

Is this type of behavior allowed in Stackexchange? No, it isn't. There are automatic algorithms in place to detect serial downvoting and reverse the votes cast. See this Stack Exchange blog post …

Technically you can downvote for whatever reason you want. (Any reason based on the content of the post, that is. If you downvote because of who posted it, that's not okay.) So if you want to downvote …

Here's my take: the questioner effectively says, right in the question, that they know that an object's velocity won't change without a force acting on it. Then they ask whether the fact that an objec …

The site won't do anything. Generally speaking, if the user assumes your answer is not helpful, then it's not helpful to them, and they have every right (perhaps even a responsibility) to downvote it. …

Unless you catch it within 5 minutes of making the vote, yes, you have to wait until the post is edited. If you see something that can be improved about the post, you can suggest an edit yourself.

It actually is mandatory to leave a comment (or something equivalent) when voting to close. The two steps of the close vote flow look like this: First step: If you click "off-topic because..." you …

The reasons you're not required to leave a comment when downvoting, and why that is not going to change, are explained in detail in many questions on Meta Stack Overflow (example). When you downvote …