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Re:Most Down-Voted Stack Overflow Questions by sgress454 on Sunday March 01, 2015 @12:35PM (#9127978)
> Eventually it was upvoted and became positive because it was a genuinely useful question

Getting down voted never feels good, but it sounds like the system worked exactly as it was supposed to in this case.

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Re:Most Down-Voted Stack Overflow Questions by z3t4 on Sunday March 01, 2015 @01:13PM (#9128184)
That must have been an exception to the rule though. If something is down-voted it has a significant higher chance of getting more down-votes and vice-versa.

You might think "doh". But if you get down-voted, try deleting the post and post the exact same content twenty minutes later. You will be surprised.

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