Timeline for Why do people down-vote questions without telling you why?
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| Nov 8, 2012 at 18:02 | comment | added | Omnifarious | @MDMarra: It's sometimes a problem. I have noticed sometimes particular users developing a 'fan' following of people who upvote them even when there are clearly better answers showing that don't receive upvotes. But this isn't a common occurrence. With regards to the FAQ, well, I suppose that makes sense. I know more about systems administration than most programmers, but I would by no means call myself a professional sysadmin. I can play one in a pinch, and the systems I administrate will not end up a total mess, but it's not where I belong. And in that sense I guess I agree. | |
| Nov 8, 2012 at 17:51 | comment | added | MDMarra |
From our faq: Server Fault is for Information Technology Professionals needing expert answers related to managing computer systems in a professional capacity." - If you are a developer, you almost never fall into this category. Now, we don't usually discriminate based on job title if your question is topical and well thought out, but this is exactly why questions about dev systems are off-topic here. We're not like most other SE sites. Those sites are all aimed at pros and amateurs alike. Server Fault is not.
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| Nov 8, 2012 at 17:48 | comment | added | Omnifarious | @JohnGardeniers: Additionally, your supposition that some people simply aren't qualified to participate on SF is both contrary to the propaganda about the stack exchange sites generally but completely confirms my suspicions and thoughts about the casual and 'well-meaning' elitism present here. | |
| Nov 8, 2012 at 17:47 | comment | added | MDMarra |
Regarding, what I assume, is the "insulting" part - I've noticed that this site tends to have a slight bias for existing members. Members with a higher reputation tend to be voted up more even if their answer is very similar to someone else's with a lower reputation. - This is really by design. The more quality answers you give, the more reputable you are. This means that users can quickly identify that your answers are usually of a decent quality, which attracts upvotes. I don't really see this as a problem, and most of the high rep users that I know vote for whoever is right regardless.
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| Nov 8, 2012 at 17:45 | comment | added | Omnifarious | @JohnGardeniers: What's insulting or incorrect about it? | |
| Nov 8, 2012 at 7:36 | comment | added | John Gardeniers | @Omnifarious, on the subject of who SF is for, perhaps you should consider that based on what you have written in your rather insulting and incorrect bio you don't even qualify to participate on SF. Please consider SU for future questions. | |
| Nov 7, 2012 at 19:53 | vote | accept | Omnifarious | ||
| Nov 7, 2012 at 19:48 | comment | added | MDMarra | @Omnifarious It's definitely a different environment than many other SEs, since this site is aimed solely at professionals. Many of us spend large amount of time profiling our requirements, so when we see questions that don't contain at least basic profiling and aren't reasonably scoped, sometimes it comes off as "Do my job for me." I know that wasn't your intention, but we're much more receptive to specific technical questions rather than broad "How should I architect this" questions. | |
| Nov 7, 2012 at 19:45 | comment | added | Omnifarious | @MDMarra: I've been wondering about that. My experience with VirtualBox with loads requiring heavy disk IO has been very poor in general. I should try VMWare I suppose. Anyway, thanks for the answer to both of my questions. I do read FAQs and am quite familiar with this site. It just bothers me immensely to have all kinds of nebulous negativity I don't understand surrounding a question that seems like a perfectly valid and on-topic question. The explanation of what's wrong with it makes perfect sense though. | |
| Nov 7, 2012 at 19:41 | comment | added | MDMarra | It's because of problems like that, that many of us avoid VirtualBox in production environments. It's fine for toying around, but it's not really used for anything serious. | |
| Nov 7, 2012 at 19:39 | comment | added | Omnifarious | @MDMarra: Ahh. Well, that means this is a completely useless place to ask my question as I will likely never know the answers to those questions. It's actually been a huge pain to measure performance for the VirtualBox builds. They take approximately 7 times longer than native builds and there doesn't seem to be any obvious reason for them to. Though that's on different hardware, and we don't have the resources to compare the builds on the same hardware. But yes, I can see how that would be really open-ended. | |
| Nov 7, 2012 at 19:34 | comment | added | MDMarra |
@Omnifarious Your actual question is "Can any of you recommend anything more to do? Is there anything I'm planning that you consider sub-optimal?" - That's way too broad. By a lot. Like, a real lot. We expect questions that are reasonably scoped with a proper amount of detail. If you want to know about disk performance on this, calculate how many IOPS you need, how much throughput, etc. Once you have that and you have some hardware you're considering, you can ask about that specific hardware in specific RAID levels - for example.
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| Nov 7, 2012 at 19:29 | comment | added | voretaq7 Mod | @Omnifarious There is no requirement for users to explain downvotes. It has been discussed extensively and the general consensus is it would just lead to rude comments because people are forced to say something. That said, if you leave your question up the reason for downvotes will be clear when someone has the time to leave a comment, or the question is closed (the closure reason usually aligns well with why a question got downvoted). | |
| Nov 7, 2012 at 19:29 | comment | added | Sven | Leaving a comment is not required for a reason. It would be polite however to check if a question is topical before posting it. | |
| Nov 7, 2012 at 19:29 | comment | added | MDMarra | I downvoted it and immediately began leaving a comment. I couldn't post it, because you had already deleted the question by the time I was done typing. This is squarely your fault. | |
| Nov 7, 2012 at 19:27 | comment | added | Omnifarious | I consider it a matter of politeness to leave a comment before downvoting something. Especially if it doesn't have any downvotes. | |
| Nov 7, 2012 at 19:26 | history | answered | MDMarra | CC BY-SA 3.0 |