Timeline for Is it reasonable/possible to further discourage down voting?
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| Oct 5, 2011 at 23:11 | comment | added | John Gardeniers | @kce, sometimes questions are closed rather than migrated because those doing the voting don't believe the question is a good fit for the sites we can vote to migrate them to. I'm sure you will have noticed the kind of crap that gets migrated from SO to SF. We try to avoid inflicting the same on SU. | |
| Oct 3, 2011 at 22:46 | comment | added | jscott | @kce It takes 5 votes (sans Mod input) to close/migrate a question. The 3/5 majority of the vote determines the action type (close/migrate) and reason. The DD-WRT question should have been migrated, but at least 3/5 votes selected "OT" without a migration path. Possibly just an oversight, it happens some times. | |
| Oct 3, 2011 at 17:19 | comment | added | user62491 | Why the close instead of the migrate? (I'm never going to get the hang of this). | |
| Oct 3, 2011 at 7:31 | comment | added | John Gardeniers | @jscott, I'd also add that there is nothing in that question that even hints at it being anything other than a personal network. | |
| Oct 2, 2011 at 14:29 | comment | added | jscott | @kce That D-DWRT example is, IMHO, off topic. Consumer grade network gear with unsupported, 3rd-party, firwmare issues is the stuff of SuperUser, not ServerFault. | |
| Oct 2, 2011 at 2:47 | comment | added | user62491 | Here's example of exactly what I'm talking about. Effort put into trying to salvage or answer a question of dubious quality is almost always wasted. | |
| Oct 2, 2011 at 2:19 | comment | added | xofer | +1 excellent point | |
| Oct 2, 2011 at 2:16 | comment | added | user62491 | The downvote iss meant to say that his question as stated sucks. Nothing more nothing less. And it's too bad that it is interpreted personally because it's obviously not meant that way. But sometimes "You're not one of us, go away" is the correct response. How does it help the community? By encouraging the poster to fix his question and receive the un-downvote or by communally downvoting it into oblivion. SF has to break some eggs to make an omelet here, lest this turns into a fancy version of Yahoo answers. | |
| Oct 2, 2011 at 2:01 | comment | added | xofer | Ok, good example. What does a down vote on that question do to help SF? IMO the asker could be a valuable member of the community, but a down vote right off the bat says, "You're not one of us, go away." Is that good for SF? | |
| Oct 1, 2011 at 22:18 | history | answered | user62491 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |