Timeline for Server Fault needs professional-quality questions, not just questions from professionals
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:14 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Dec 9, 2014 at 10:41 | comment | added | Rob Moir | @JMC I would suggest that a downvote without a comment is the equivalent of downvoting then typing in the text from the tooltip that appears when you hover above the downvote arrow as your comment. You're not wrong about it leaving a negative impression on people, but I would suggest that not dealing with bad questions would leave a worse impression. | |
| Dec 8, 2014 at 22:14 | comment | added | Andrew B | @JMC That sentiment gets repeated on meta here often, and the answers tend to be the same. There are a number of regulars who consider themselves to be in the "nicer" camp who simply can't keep up with the rate SF gets bad questions, and the reward for any actual effort is usually being slapped with a trout. Someone who demonstrates effort and intelligence to solve their own problem will usually get useful feedback in the comments, even if they are misguided in some way. Not so coincidentally, those are not the questions that draw the most downvotes. | |
| Dec 8, 2014 at 19:16 | history | edited | JMC | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 8, 2014 at 19:13 | comment | added | HopelessN00b Mod | Well, the downvote-without-comment thing isn't a "problem" that can really be solved (not without discouraging downvoting to the point that no one does it), and one that exists on all the SE sites. The tooltip when you hover on the down arrow tells you what a downvote is intended to mean, and in most cases, that's plenty. Trust me, telling people why their question is a steaming turd just makes them defensive and offended and flame-y anyway; it doesn't do what you seem to think it would. And frankly, I don't want people who ask crap questions returning to ask another one anyway, so... bonus. | |
| Dec 8, 2014 at 19:09 | comment | added | JMC | Thanks for asking. I'd rather people leave a note about why they downvoted. Without helping people understand why their question is poor, the person that asked is unlikely to create a better question next time. It's more likely they'll never ask a question here again. | |
| Dec 8, 2014 at 19:05 | comment | added | HopelessN00b Mod | So... you'd feel better if the front page had lots of upvoted, or 0-score crap? But also, you like the quality standards? I'm not sure what to make of that apparent cognitive dissonance there. | |
| Dec 8, 2014 at 18:59 | history | answered | JMC | CC BY-SA 3.0 |