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I want to respond to these bullet points you're suggesting:

I strongly believe that the following changes must be implemented:

  • No voting down on questions. It serves absolutely no purpose other than to harass the OP and as a flag for the future auto-deletion. Optionally, there could be some canned responses that explain how the question could be improved, which is much better than a downvote

Not this nonsense againThis has been suggested so many times already.

Votes are a quality control mechanism. Downvotes enable deletion on especially egregious questions. Downvotes signal bad quality.

They're extremely useful, and with over 150k rep, you should know that by nowa critical part of how the SE network works.

  • Instead, there needs to be an option to flag a question as having no community value
  • Questions flagged as such, must simply be removed after being resolved (or after a reasonable timeout)

So they're of no value, yet we're keeping them here for... What reason?

  • The closure reasons listed above should just add such a flag, but don't close the question, letting anyone answer it.

You're basically suggesting we should just open the floodgates to any and all crap and not allow deletion of it until the OP is satisfied.

HellDamn no.

Quora can take those questions.

I want to respond to these bullet points you're suggesting:

I strongly believe that the following changes must be implemented:

  • No voting down on questions. It serves absolutely no purpose other than to harass the OP and as a flag for the future auto-deletion. Optionally, there could be some canned responses that explain how the question could be improved, which is much better than a downvote

Not this nonsense again.

Votes are a quality control mechanism. Downvotes enable deletion on especially egregious questions. Downvotes signal bad quality.

They're extremely useful, and with over 150k rep, you should know that by now.

  • Instead, there needs to be an option to flag a question as having no community value
  • Questions flagged as such, must simply be removed after being resolved (or after a reasonable timeout)

So they're of no value, yet we're keeping them here for... What reason?

  • The closure reasons listed above should just add such a flag, but don't close the question, letting anyone answer it.

You're basically suggesting we should just open the floodgates to any and all crap and not allow deletion of it until the OP is satisfied.

Hell no.

Quora can take those questions.

I want to respond to these bullet points you're suggesting:

I strongly believe that the following changes must be implemented:

  • No voting down on questions. It serves absolutely no purpose other than to harass the OP and as a flag for the future auto-deletion. Optionally, there could be some canned responses that explain how the question could be improved, which is much better than a downvote

This has been suggested so many times already.

Votes are a quality control mechanism. Downvotes enable deletion on especially egregious questions. Downvotes signal bad quality.

They're extremely useful, and a critical part of how the SE network works.

  • Instead, there needs to be an option to flag a question as having no community value
  • Questions flagged as such, must simply be removed after being resolved (or after a reasonable timeout)

So they're of no value, yet we're keeping them here for... What reason?

  • The closure reasons listed above should just add such a flag, but don't close the question, letting anyone answer it.

You're basically suggesting we should just open the floodgates to any and all crap and not allow deletion of it until the OP is satisfied.

Damn no.

Quora can take those questions.

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I'm not goingI want to cover the full extent of your post, justrespond to these bullet points you're suggesting:

I strongly believe that the following changes must be implemented:

  • No voting down on questions. It serves absolutely no purpose other than to harass the OP and as a flag for the future auto-deletion. Optionally, there could be some canned responses that explain how the question could be improved, which is much better than a downvote

Not this nonsense again.

Votes are a quality control mechanism. Downvotes enable deletion on especially egregious questions. Downvotes signal bad quality.

They're extremely useful, and with over 150k rep, you should know that by now.

  • Instead, there needs to be an option to flag a question as having no community value
  • Questions flagged as such, must simply be removed after being resolved (or after a reasonable timeout)

So they're of no value, yet we're keeping them here for... What reason?

  • The closure reasons listed above should just add such a flag, but don't close the question, letting anyone answer it.

You're basically suggesting we should just open the floodgates to any and all crap and not allow deletion of it until the OP is satisfied.

Hell no.

Quora can take those questions.

I'm not going to cover the full extent of your post, just these bullet points you're suggesting:

I strongly believe that the following changes must be implemented:

  • No voting down on questions. It serves absolutely no purpose other than to harass the OP and as a flag for the future auto-deletion. Optionally, there could be some canned responses that explain how the question could be improved, which is much better than a downvote

Not this nonsense again.

Votes are a quality control mechanism. Downvotes enable deletion on especially egregious questions. Downvotes signal bad quality.

They're extremely useful, and with over 150k rep, you should know that by now.

  • Instead, there needs to be an option to flag a question as having no community value
  • Questions flagged as such, must simply be removed after being resolved (or after a reasonable timeout)

So they're of no value, yet we're keeping them here for... What reason?

  • The closure reasons listed above should just add such a flag, but don't close the question, letting anyone answer it.

You're basically suggesting we should just open the floodgates to any and all crap and not allow deletion of it until the OP is satisfied.

Hell no.

Quora can take those questions.

I want to respond to these bullet points you're suggesting:

I strongly believe that the following changes must be implemented:

  • No voting down on questions. It serves absolutely no purpose other than to harass the OP and as a flag for the future auto-deletion. Optionally, there could be some canned responses that explain how the question could be improved, which is much better than a downvote

Not this nonsense again.

Votes are a quality control mechanism. Downvotes enable deletion on especially egregious questions. Downvotes signal bad quality.

They're extremely useful, and with over 150k rep, you should know that by now.

  • Instead, there needs to be an option to flag a question as having no community value
  • Questions flagged as such, must simply be removed after being resolved (or after a reasonable timeout)

So they're of no value, yet we're keeping them here for... What reason?

  • The closure reasons listed above should just add such a flag, but don't close the question, letting anyone answer it.

You're basically suggesting we should just open the floodgates to any and all crap and not allow deletion of it until the OP is satisfied.

Hell no.

Quora can take those questions.

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I'm not even going to cover that entire wall of textthe full extent of your post, just these bullet points you're suggesting:

I strongly believe that the following changes must be implemented:

  • No voting down on questions. It serves absolutely no purpose other than to harass the OP and as a flag for the future auto-deletion. Optionally, there could be some canned responses that explain how the question could be improved, which is much better than a downvote

Not this nonsense again.

Votes are a quality control mechanism. Downvotes enable deletion on especially egregious questions. Downvotes signal bad quality.

They're extremely useful, and with over 150k rep, you should know that by now.

  • Instead, there needs to be an option to flag a question as having no community value
  • Questions flagged as such, must simply be removed after being resolved (or after a reasonable timeout)

So they're of no value, yet we're keeping them here for... What reason?

  • The closure reasons listed above should just add such a flag, but don't close the question, letting anyone answer it.

You're basically suggesting we should just open the floodgates to any and all crap and not allow deletion of it until the OP is satisfied.

Hell no.

Quora can take those questions.

I'm not even going to cover that entire wall of text, just these bullet points you're suggesting:

I strongly believe that the following changes must be implemented:

  • No voting down on questions. It serves absolutely no purpose other than to harass the OP and as a flag for the future auto-deletion. Optionally, there could be some canned responses that explain how the question could be improved, which is much better than a downvote

Not this nonsense again.

Votes are a quality control mechanism. Downvotes enable deletion on especially egregious questions. Downvotes signal bad quality.

They're extremely useful, and with over 150k rep, you should know that by now.

  • Instead, there needs to be an option to flag a question as having no community value
  • Questions flagged as such, must simply be removed after being resolved (or after a reasonable timeout)

So they're of no value, yet we're keeping them here for... What reason?

  • The closure reasons listed above should just add such a flag, but don't close the question, letting anyone answer it.

You're basically suggesting we should just open the floodgates to any and all crap and not allow deletion of it until the OP is satisfied.

Hell no.

Quora can take those questions.

I'm not going to cover the full extent of your post, just these bullet points you're suggesting:

I strongly believe that the following changes must be implemented:

  • No voting down on questions. It serves absolutely no purpose other than to harass the OP and as a flag for the future auto-deletion. Optionally, there could be some canned responses that explain how the question could be improved, which is much better than a downvote

Not this nonsense again.

Votes are a quality control mechanism. Downvotes enable deletion on especially egregious questions. Downvotes signal bad quality.

They're extremely useful, and with over 150k rep, you should know that by now.

  • Instead, there needs to be an option to flag a question as having no community value
  • Questions flagged as such, must simply be removed after being resolved (or after a reasonable timeout)

So they're of no value, yet we're keeping them here for... What reason?

  • The closure reasons listed above should just add such a flag, but don't close the question, letting anyone answer it.

You're basically suggesting we should just open the floodgates to any and all crap and not allow deletion of it until the OP is satisfied.

Hell no.

Quora can take those questions.

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