Timeline for answer to Reset negative vote after question has improved by Cody Gray
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| Jul 26, 2023 at 0:13 | comment | added | Karl Knechtel | @Mr.Squirrel.Downy I have seen people ask excellent questions as their first question, and I have seen people use the site for 14 years and continue asking bad questions. Nothing about one's level of expertise with a programming language inherently prevents asking a good question - but there are fundamental diagnostic, problem-solving and research skills that we expect everyone to have. | |
| Dec 14, 2021 at 2:36 | comment | added | Mr. Squirrel.Downy | A year later, at least I am glad to see that the SO community has a higher tolerance for bad questions from new users - downvote and initiate delete without left any comment is not common now. | |
| Jun 1, 2020 at 15:20 | comment | added | StoryTeller - Unslander Monica | @MartinJames - Don't forget the vpvotes from those "helpful" individuals who set out to "correct" the "harm" done by others downvoting. | |
| Jun 1, 2020 at 15:16 | comment | added | Martin James | @Flithor 'But some downvotes are really confusing' what about the inexplicable upvoting on really terrible questions? We should require review and explanations of those too, (actually, I can explain some of them as robo-random upvoting to cover up voting-ring and puppet fraud). | |
| Jun 1, 2020 at 15:11 | comment | added | StoryTeller - Unslander Monica | @Ch3steR - I'd go further. My subjective experience is that when a newcomer posts a high-quality question they are likely to get a slew of up-votes. Gee, it's almost as if the community is happy to see a newcomer that contributes good content, and doesn't have anything against the newcomer status. | |
| Jun 1, 2020 at 12:17 | comment | added | Mr. Squirrel.Downy | @CodyGray sure, that's right...But some downvotes are really confusing | |
| Jun 1, 2020 at 11:12 | comment | added | Ch3steR | @Flithor It's not just newcomers I even saw 50K+ rep users getting downvotes and a newcomer getting 20+ ups(This question was from R tag and was even in hot network questions. It's just the community's way of telling your question/answer is lacking something. And it's useful for future readers to segregate good answer from bad answers. | |
| Jun 1, 2020 at 11:00 | comment | added | E_net4 | @Flithor It is part of a professional stance to be open to feedback and constructive criticism. This is even listed in the code of conduct, and new users are not exempt from abiding to it. If people insist on hardwiring this idea that moderation is harmful, we cannot help with that. As explained in the other answer, by letting people ask low quality questions, you would be harming the experience of thousands of users over the feelings of a single new user. | |
| Jun 1, 2020 at 10:28 | comment | added | Cody Gray Mod | It has nothing to do with newcomers. There is absolutely no prejudice here against newcomers. Low-quality questions get downvoted (and should), regardless of how new the asker is to the site. | |
| Jun 1, 2020 at 10:22 | comment | added | Mr. Squirrel.Downy | You won't put it that way. I also admit that SO has a lot of bad quality problems. But criticizing newcomers is not a good community culture. SO has always been like this. SO community members are offen telling newcomers by action: Get out! Maybe the chat room is more suitable for newcomers. | |
| Jun 1, 2020 at 10:14 | comment | added | Cody Gray Mod | @Flithor I wouldn't put it that way. But you should not be surprised when low-quality questions get downvotes. This is the whole point of a downvote: to signal a question that is unclear, not useful, and/or does not show research effort. | |
| Jun 1, 2020 at 9:54 | comment | added | Mr. Squirrel.Downy | "If you can't ask a good question, then you should not come to SO." right? | |
| Jun 1, 2020 at 9:21 | history | answered | Cody GrayMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |