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Recently I came across this question.

What I don't understand at all is why this question even got a downvote. Cobragon clearly stated his problem about Charizard not forgetting Cut, he gave the scenario he was in, and he had tags related to the question.
How could this get a downvote?
This is where my idea comes in.
Instead of just being able to downvote when you get the privilege, you should have to give a reason why you downvoted said question.

For example, we have this question after I did some digging.
For a reason, I would say "Question is hard to read, with spelling and grammar errors."
Either that or there could be a checkbox.

To prevent random downvoting mods would review downvotes and if it doesn't apply, take them away.

Note that this is just an idea.

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Tbh bad tagging isn't really a good reason to downvote.

Anyways, I don't think this would help a lot. People could still just randomly downvote and check a box that doesn't apply to the question.
Mods could review it maybe?
I like this.
You can just post in the comments why you downvoted?
But with this, it is mandatory to say why you downvoted. With this, mods can remove unnecessary downvotes.
I think Mods remove downvotes if they are really bad anyways.
l don't think mods want to sit in front of a list of down-votes all day judging whether they're good or not.
Don't and definitely don't want to.
Again, it is just an idea.
And they don't have to look at a list of some sort, they can just get a notification saying "Hey! Someone downvoted on question "X" which was posted "MM/DD/YY"!"
The problem is that if the question has wrong information, you can just flag.
Downvoting is just an opinion to show if the answer has bad spelling, doesn't answer the question (very well), etc. Voting is like stating your opinion anonymously, IMO.
It's an anonymous reason.

Man I am trying to keep this thing live.
Just kinda bugging me, wrong answers should be downvoted, not flagged because they aren't against the rules.
I do both. Just to get the mod's attention to hide. :3
Hold on, hold on...

Wrong answers or answers with bad spelling get downvoted.

Flags are for rule breaking.

On Pokebase, no opinion in your votes.
bump.  i have seen and received some pointless downvotes these weeks. it would be a really good idea if mods could remove spam-downvotes
why do people care about downvotes so much?  Theyre only ten points .-.
^ yeah, true. But i have no problems with the -10 points, just the annoying downvote itself
Seriously guys, don't worry about it. Sometimes dumb downvotes are given - mods and editors cop a load of it, but we aren't complaining. I have 85, and I really wouldn't care if I had a hundred.

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