what's an upvoted answer?

Question

(I did try to find the answer elsewhere...)

 

Oh... wait, I think I may have figured it out. Under Unanswered tab, a sub-tab is "No upvoted answer" which totallly confounded me. upvoted?

 

I believe this means that while a question may have been answered, no one has clicked on the star of one of the responses. Is that it?

Do I get any points or an increase in my status if I got it right? ;-)

Answer 1

An upvoted answer is an answer that has had the up arrow clicked in the little green box beside it. The idea is that if there are lots of answers to a question, answers will be voted up or down, so the good ones will float to the top. The same goes for questions.

~Lianne

Comments

Ah... that's what the box on the left is for. I see it only works on answers, not comments. Sometimes, I've been noticing, the best answers are in the comments. And do people really use the down arrow? Yikes...

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Yes, I've found that my (poor) sense of humor has gotten me two down votes.

 

I no longer try to make jokes.

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And does getting down votes subtract from your "points" or demote your G2G status? ;-)

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I don't know. Perhaps one of the 'real' authorities will chime in.

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oh dear, not necessary; i was joking. kinda.

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I promise I've never downvoted your jokes, Tom! :P I don't think people use the down vote much. Generally answers here are helpful.

And I don't know how/if it affects your score. Feel free to downvote my answer to test!