Timeline for answer to The rudeness on Stack Overflow is too damn high by thesecretmaster
Current License: CC BY-SA 3.0
Post Revisions
10 events
| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 19, 2018 at 8:46 | history | edited | halfer | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Break down wall of text
|
| Aug 6, 2016 at 13:16 | comment | added | thesecretmaster | @Patrice Ok, I see what you're saying. I just have a different opinion then you on this. What you're saying makes sense, I just don't agree, so there is no point in arguing. | |
| Aug 6, 2016 at 13:14 | comment | added | Patrice | @thesecretmaster read the tooltip on downvote on questions... last part: "It is unclear or not useful". So YES they should also be downvoted when they aren't useful. To me, I downvote since the rules are clear, there are articles explaining how to ask, the doc exists. Someone not checking the tour, the help center, and posting a question without checking our quality guidelines isn't putting enough effort. To me, these should be downvoted (I get where you are coming from and in the case of well researched questions that should be closed, I DO refrain from downvoting. Not ALL the time I CTV). | |
| Aug 5, 2016 at 19:18 | comment | added | thesecretmaster | @KevinB Well you have to choose if you would prefer to keep the percieved rudeness up and downvote and flag, or just flag, which will close the question and be more valuable to the op. If 5 other members don't also agree with you then you should just downvote, but downvotes should be for questions inapropriate for the site, they should be for "questions that are not useful" | |
| Aug 5, 2016 at 19:03 | comment | added | user400654 | downvoting provides signal to the system so that the system can take the appropriate actions against the post/user. Downvotes on questions push the user closer to question throttling and pushes the question down on the list of questions, both good things. Just like how upvoting does the opposite, which of course is also good. doing nothing at all is a failure to moderate. | |
| Aug 5, 2016 at 19:02 | comment | added | thesecretmaster | @KevinB It goes without saying that a flagged question is bad, and that message is sent by the flag, so we don't need to further frustrate users by downvoting too. Flagging is more useful than downvoting because it leads the user down a path to fix the question. | |
| Aug 5, 2016 at 18:37 | comment | added | user400654 | is a bad question useful? why can't it be both bad and not useful? or bad and poorly researched? why should we not cast a downvote on a not useful or poorly researched question? | |
| Aug 5, 2016 at 14:06 | comment | added | thesecretmaster | I just feel like downvotes are more demoralizing to new users than getting closed, because from closure there is somewhere to go to so things can be fixed. I think that "meta voting" (voting based on your opinion of the question e.g. if it is a stupid question) is now being inappropriately used on the regular site. | |
| Aug 5, 2016 at 14:04 | comment | added | Konrad Rudolph | I completely agree. I do sometimes use a downvote as an incentive for the OP to improve the question. But if I vote to quote a question I won’t generally also downvote it. | |
| Aug 5, 2016 at 13:54 | history | answered | thesecretmaster | CC BY-SA 3.0 |