Timeline for Quotas on downvoting
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:14 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Aug 18, 2010 at 3:29 | comment | added | Natalie Adams | Your response intrigues me, I can't tell if it is an attack against me or a rhetorical statement. In any case, your statement of "Some people don't read questions or answers, they simply click buttons." is exactly the reason why a quota system should be put into place. At least for the people who under a certain rep, are required to post a "useful" comment. I did watch a small portion of a presentation given by one of the creators of the SO system and they wanted to "encourage" a certain behavior with the way the site works and this would defiantly accomplish that goal, would you not agree? | |
| Aug 17, 2010 at 21:35 | comment | added | John Gardeniers | @Nathan, you've given one example where the downvote was not warranted. This happens. Some people don't read questions or answers, they simply click buttons. Are you also going to get upset when people upvote your answers when that is unwarranted? That happens too, yet nobody ever complains about it. One thing I can tell you, based on observation, the more you complain about downvotes the more likely you are to get them. | |
| Aug 17, 2010 at 12:01 | comment | added | Natalie Adams | A perfect example of why I would even concise of such a feature is this SF question: serverfault.com/questions/170601/170606 for whatever reason someone downvoted me yet the OP posted that the answer was "spot on". | |
| Aug 17, 2010 at 11:56 | comment | added | Natalie Adams | An upvote simply means you agree or like the answer which generally I don't think warrants a comment (ie you wouldn't post "nice post d00d!"), but usually a downvote there is some reason you are downvoting it (wrong answer, incomplete answer) which in that case I think it would be beneficial for not only the SF like sites to know what is wrong about the answer, but to allow the poster to fix it. I mean, if someone downvotes an answer, and someone else discovers it through google or something - how do they know what is wrong with the answer? | |
| Aug 15, 2010 at 21:50 | history | answered | John Gardeniers | CC BY-SA 2.5 |