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If you cannot give a short explanation why you downvoted a Meta question or answer, should you downvote it?
As the help center says, voting on meta is different (and more complicated). Part of it is the same:
Like normal Stack Exchange sites, Meta allows members to vote on questions and answers. For most ...
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If you cannot give a short explanation why you downvoted a Meta question or answer, should you downvote it?
While it would be great if people did leave explanation of downvotes, if there isn't one, we already have a default position as to what it means:
Generally there is the tooltip message:
For a ...

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If you cannot give a short explanation why you downvoted a Meta question or answer, should you downvote it?
On meta, votes indicate agreement or disagreement, unlike on the main site where they mean you need a bath, are a living brain donor, and that a recent ancestor of yours was a chimpanzee. Note that ...
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