Timeline for A minor gripe about upvoting things that have been downvoted [pity upvotes]
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| Mar 24, 2022 at 18:44 | answer | added | Mike | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 22, 2022 at 6:07 | history | edited | Martin Sleziak |
added the (up-votes) tag to make this post easier to find
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| Nov 18, 2021 at 4:15 | answer | added | user2661923 | timeline score: -3 | |
| Mar 30, 2020 at 19:50 | history | edited | Bill Dubuque | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
added keyword "pity" to help locate this question for linlking purposes
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| Nov 23, 2019 at 12:43 | comment | added | aman | Yes, don't be negative, if a question is badly framed, there's an edit button for that... I am going to up-vote decent questions with a negative total | |
| Nov 19, 2019 at 16:35 | answer | added | rocksNwaves | timeline score: -13 | |
| Apr 22, 2013 at 1:53 | comment | added | Squirtle | "This is quite a minor gripe, but I would appreciate if people did not do this." I see nothing wrong with this type of voting, I find once a question has its first downvote others come more quickly (like the first vote is a catalyst). It's my opinion you should NOT downvote "borderline" questions/answers/posts because what you may find to be "borderline" could be seen as very useful to someone else, but it may not get the attention it deserves because of your vote. | |
| Jun 9, 2011 at 1:02 | comment | added | AppliedSide | @Qiaochu: Roughly, sure. It also serves as a way to give users a gold star. I think unwarranted negative feedback is a sufficient reason to give a user a little boost of serotonin. | |
| Jun 8, 2011 at 20:17 | comment | added | Qiaochu Yuan Mod | @Nick: isn't rep supposed to roughly correspond to community approval of a user? I am just as worried about that as I am about questions and answers. | |
| Jun 8, 2011 at 19:50 | comment | added | AppliedSide | In my opinion, this complaint isn't just minor but also misguided. You've made a measure of community approval (rep) the target, rather than what should be the target: actual community approval of a question or answer. | |
| Jun 7, 2011 at 15:16 | comment | added | Carl Mummert | In short, I think we should just change the point system rather than trying to change voting behavior. | |
| Jun 7, 2011 at 15:12 | comment | added | Carl Mummert | I think the reputation system is somewhat separate from the totaling mechanism. For the reputation, it would make more sense for downvotes that keep the total non-negative to completely cancel the reputation from the corresponding upvotes, and upvotes that keep the score nonpostive to cancel the corresponding downvotes. But it seems like a minor issue to me. When I vote I'm not worried about reputation, I'm worried about giving information to others about the question or answer I'm voting on. | |
| Jun 7, 2011 at 3:11 | answer | added | Kaveh | timeline score: 14 | |
| May 24, 2011 at 15:33 | comment | added | Eric Naslund | Occasionally I have done this, since I tend to vote often. I won't from now on on downvoted questions. (Unless they have been improved, or should be upvoted) | |
| May 23, 2011 at 18:47 | answer | added | Mitch | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 23, 2011 at 12:12 | history | edited | Qiaochu YuanMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 23, 2011 at 12:01 | answer | added | Phira | timeline score: 44 | |
| May 23, 2011 at 11:52 | history | edited | Bill Dubuque | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 23, 2011 at 11:00 | history | asked | Qiaochu YuanMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |