Timeline for Are we upvoting/downvoting questions for the right reasons?
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| Nov 22, 2013 at 19:24 | comment | added | MDMarra | I'd like to also point out that there's nothing wrong with "drive by" downvoting. It's been discussed time and time again on meta.stackoverflow.com among other places. If Stack Exchange didn't want people downvoting without leaving comments, they'd make leaving a comment a requirement to downvote. | |
| Nov 22, 2013 at 18:43 | comment | added | EEAA | Mark - in the vast majority of cases, drive-by-downvotes are left without comment because they conform to the downvote guidelines laid out in the down-arrow tooltip. | |
| Nov 22, 2013 at 18:30 | comment | added | user9517 | I downvoted your most recent question because quite frankly it showed no research and was incredibly sucky. I had to read your code block to discover hos the output had been generated. I used google and was educated second link appears to solve the problem. | |
| Nov 22, 2013 at 18:06 | comment | added | TheCleaner | And the downvotes here on Meta are different...here in Meta it means "I disagree with your post". | |
| Nov 22, 2013 at 18:05 | comment | added | TheCleaner | Mark, I think the issue you are running into here is that SF operates quite differently from SO. While SO has a more "come one come all with your programming questions, regardless of your experience", SF is dedicated to professional sysadmins. As such, it's expected you not only follow the site rules but are yourself a pro sysadmin. That's not why your other question got downvoted though (at least I don't think it is, I wasn't who did it). Most likely it was due lack of research. Simply throwing out a "I don't have time to figure it out...here's the error, what's wrong?" doesn't fly here. | |
| Nov 22, 2013 at 17:23 | comment | added | boatcoder | Point proved. ServerFault, the place to go when you absolutely don't need any help. | |
| Nov 22, 2013 at 16:42 | comment | added | MDMarra | You could always try asking better questions. | |
| Nov 22, 2013 at 16:40 | comment | added | Dan | I went to downvote your post, but unfortunately, it was a drive by vote and I caught @TheCleaner in the cross fire :( | |
| Nov 22, 2013 at 16:37 | history | answered | boatcoder | CC BY-SA 3.0 |