Timeline for Are we upvoting/downvoting questions for the right reasons?
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| Nov 8, 2013 at 20:46 | comment | added | voretaq7 Mod | @TheCleaner I think the tooltip is network-wide. I vaguely recall some talk about changing it a year or so ago (not sure if it was here or on mSO) that went down in flames for some reason but if you can come up with language that sucks less throw it in a separate Meta and I'll make a nuisance of myself in the Teacher's Lounge to see if it's changeable :-) | |
| Nov 8, 2013 at 20:46 | comment | added | Falcon Momot | I view the research effort as part of "useful". It's certainly a necessary condition in most cases. | |
| Nov 8, 2013 at 20:44 | comment | added | TheCleaner |
So to sum up. You see the tooltip as allowing upvoting if it is clear or useful, not necessarily based on the research effort? I don't disagree with your answer, that's how I tend to vote as well. My real question was are we voting correctly?. So maybe it should be put into consideration to change the upvote tooltip to something like "This question is useful and on-topic" and leave the downvote tooltip as is. Since it would be unlikely that someone would upvote a well researched crap/offtopic question.
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| Nov 8, 2013 at 20:38 | history | answered | Falcon Momot | CC BY-SA 3.0 |