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Is there a consensus in The Workplace regarding the meaning of votes for answers?

(The question came to my mind when reading an answer but this is just for reference). Is there a consensus about what up- and down-voting mean for answers? What would be the "voting reaction"...
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Should we take into account the number of answers and up-votes for a question, when voting to close?

Example question: Strange job interview -- What were they really looking for? In the example, the question is well voted for and has a good number of highly voted answers. However, I would tend to ...
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Why did an answer stating reasons for the questions eventual deletion get deleted & earn negative reputation?

I answered to the question below pointing out the exact reasons why the question got put on hold and deleted eventually. My answer had 10 upvote events, 2 downvote events and a comment with the same ...
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Only got +1 Reputation from answer upvote

I recently posted an answer to a question. After that I proceeded to read the other answers; upvoted one I considered good and downvoted another that was not so good and also seemed like was somewhat ...
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Can't see upvotes and downvotes for questions and answers

In StackOverflow the user can see the number of upvotes and downvotes when he clicks the total number of votes for a question/answer (between the upvote/downvote arrows). But this is not possible in ...
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Can we reward upvotes for comments?

Users have the ability to upvote comments, as well as answers. Upvotes for answers give an increase to reputation. Upvotes for comments give you nothing. Can we give rep changes for comment votes?
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How is the 'Stackoverflow' question not a duplicate?

I always thought the Stackoverflow question: Team members spending too much time on Stack Overflow was somewhat familiar. I searched for productivity and found a question which in the essence is the ...