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You should vote as if you would not see the absolute votes already given. This is my strong belief. The final result in votes should be a sum of the single decisions of the community. If you look at it closely, everything else does not make sense. If you see a question that is written well, intriguing and probably a thing you always wanted to know, why on ...

I vote with users in mind. Here are some voting patterns which are in my past, even though it is hard to say how often or frequently I have used them. If there is a question with zero votes that isn't inherently a bad question then I'll vote on it just to signal to the OP that the question is well written. If I ask OP to change something and he does it then ...

There's a lot in this question 1. Moderators deleting answers for technical content I agree with Mr.Wizard on this, and I've also taken the same stance in a few other meta posts of mine: Moderators shouldn't be forced to delete answers for technical content. Of course, "technical content" might be broadly interpreted by some to mean anything not ...

To expand on 0x4A4D's comment, traffic spikes from reddit and other external links are a fact of life on Mathematica.SE. The canonical example was Amatya's xkcd question, with 143,000 page views and approaching 400 upvotes just for the question. But it has been a bit of a tradition here to have bust-out graphics questions, as well as previously when some of ...

Since you have more than 2000 reputation points, you can edit any question or answer. That taken with Mr.Wizard's hint should tell you how you reverse your down-vote. Consider making an edit with no visual effect or two edits, the 2nd undoing the 1st.

Please see Why do you lose reputation for down-voting? (I am posting as an answer so that this appears answered.)

It is hard to vote on your post because it is not well-focused on one yes-no issue. You suggest a new criterion, good formatting, for up-voting questions. You suggest it is more important 'useful' and, maybe 'clear'. You argue that research effort should not be a criterion for up-voting. You assert you are 'tilting at windmills' I certainly agree with your ...