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| May 23, 2017 at 12:38 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Mar 3, 2016 at 20:55 | comment | added | Shog9 StaffMod | Funny enough, closing tends to be less discouraging than downvoting. So depending on what your goal is, you may find one or the other more productive. Sadly, an awful lot of folks close when their goal is better served by downvoting, and then get unhappy when it doesn't work. | |
| Mar 3, 2016 at 20:02 | history | edited | Stephan | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 3, 2016 at 19:56 | history | edited | Stephan | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 3, 2016 at 19:37 | history | edited | Peter Mortensen | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Copy edited (e.g. ref. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube> and <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/forever#Adverb>). Expansion.
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| Mar 3, 2016 at 19:23 | history | edited | Stephan | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 3, 2016 at 18:44 | comment | added | JDB | A Close Vote is not a Super-Downvote. Please don't use it as one. The flow is not Close -> Downvote. It may not even be Downvote -> Close. They are different tools for different, but sometimes overlapping, situations. | |
| Mar 3, 2016 at 18:18 | comment | added | Luis Masuelli | The two last cases also apply for CLOSING. | |
| Mar 3, 2016 at 17:04 | comment | added | Martin James | A significant set of question posters, as well as being selfish and incompetent deadbeats, blatantly lie in their questions, eg. asking why the output is X when the code they post will not remotely compile because they typed in the code from their printed homework and transcribed it wrong. | |
| Mar 3, 2016 at 17:01 | comment | added | Martin James | Many of then dont want a hand, or encouragement, THEY WANT THEIR QUESTION ANSWSERED NOW HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVETO SAY THIS JUST ANSWER THE BLOODY QUESTION AND STOP WITH THE COMMENTS I HAVE TO HAND THIS IN TOMORROW JUST ANSWER THE QUESTION AND STOP COMPLAINING ELSE I WILL FLAG YOUR COMMENTS AS HOSTILE AND GET YOU SUSPENDED. YOU CANT DO NOTHIN TO ME COS I JUST CREATE NEW ACCOUTS SO DO MY WORK AND DO IT NOW OR JUST GO AWAY GOD YOURE SO STUPID ON SO BLOODY SO-CALLED EXPERTS CANT JUST DO WHAT I WANT. | |
| Mar 3, 2016 at 15:24 | comment | added | MaxRocket | For the lazy OPs, link to a Google search, or LMGTFY. No need to be mean. They'll get the hint. Maybe. But if someone's really struggling, give then a hand and encouragement and less attitude, please! | |
| Mar 3, 2016 at 15:22 | comment | added | MaxRocket | I'm gonna say that being harsh and angry to people isn't going to help. I've been on here a year, appreciate the help I've gotten, but also feel like "why bother?" answering questions because a lot of folks (commentets, not the OP) are harshly critical if your answer isn't PERFECT. | |
| Mar 3, 2016 at 14:42 | comment | added | Servy | @MartinJames The downvote isn't there to hurt the OP, it's there to provide a signal to every other viewer, or potential viewer, that the question isn't a good one. That it will, on rare occasion, actually stop someone from being able to ask a bad question when enough of their posts are downvoted is nice, but not the main reason to downvote. | |
| Mar 3, 2016 at 14:06 | comment | added | Martin James | I do agree, however, that downvotes are pretty useless when applied to 'Member since today' homework vamps. They use a new account for each question anyway. Close-votes are better, but you need to be quick before some rep-personalServicesWorker answers, the OP copies out the answer and deletes his/her question to attempt to hide the Q&A from their prof/TA. | |
| Mar 3, 2016 at 14:02 | comment | added | Martin James | @Stephan what is the pont of an amical approach to someone who WANTS THEIR HOMEWORK ANSWER NOW WHY ARE YOU POSTING THSE STUPID COMMENTS WHY DONT YOU JUST ANSWER MY QUESTION I SPENT 30 SECONDS OF MY VALUABLE TIME COPYPASTING IT TO SO WHY DONT YOU JUST ANSWER IT ARE YOU SO STUPID? JUST ANSWER IT AND STOP TALKING BACK IF YOU DONT KNOW THE ANSWER JUST GO AWAY.... Sadly, most of the time, being nice just get you abused:( | |
| Mar 3, 2016 at 12:22 | comment | added | Stephan | @JonasCz This is why I prefer an amical approach made of edit and comment before closing, downvoting or comment with DV. | |
| Mar 3, 2016 at 11:49 | comment | added | Jonas Czech | Regarding downvotes: "It hurts your own reputation" - no downvotes on questions are free, and have been for a long time. Downvoting questions does not cost you any rep. "It scares OP away, makes the site appear elitist" - So does closing their question. And if people post a bad question which gets downvoted, it's quite likely that the next question will be just as bad, and if we scare then away, then we have successfully kept out their next bad question. If we leave a comment with our DV, it will help them understand what's wrong with their question, and how they can make the next one better. | |
| Mar 3, 2016 at 11:24 | history | edited | Stephan | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 3, 2016 at 10:55 | history | edited | Stephan | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 3, 2016 at 10:54 | comment | added | gnat | Off topic questions have to be cleared out of the way, but NOT via closure | |
| Mar 3, 2016 at 10:39 | comment | added | Jonas Czech | @CodeCaster, They do (sort-of) thwart bad questions. Closevotes, downvotes, all feed the question ban system, which is supposed to prevent users from posting many bad questions. | |
| Mar 3, 2016 at 10:20 | comment | added | CodeCaster | The tools you mention do not prevent bad quality questions to be posted, hardly ever improve them and won't prevent people who use Stack Overflow as their resume to post answers that may or may not help the OP. | |
| Mar 3, 2016 at 9:38 | history | answered | Stephan | CC BY-SA 3.0 |