Timeline for Deduction in rep for downvoting
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| Jul 9, 2020 at 13:53 | history | edited | Martin Sleziak |
added (answrs) - this is specifically about downvoting answers; the tag might make it easier to find this topic in the future
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| Nov 25, 2019 at 10:35 | comment | added | user | @Mirko I suppose that the small penalization $(-1)$ is aimed to encourage, as an alternative, comments to fix or modify the wrong answer. When an answer is clearly wrong, I expect that by comments or downvoting the community will be able to intervene in order to rectify that. | |
| Nov 25, 2019 at 6:06 | answer | added | Mirko | timeline score: -4 | |
| Nov 25, 2019 at 2:13 | comment | added | Mirko | I second @TheCount opinion that you can't have it both ways. If you penalize voting down, then that promotes bad answers. It should be possible to vote down without punishment, at least I propose that it should be possible to a moderate extent,so just trying to find the right balance. I also find it "morally wrong" and unacceptable to punish users for voting a wrong answer down, this sends a wrong message to voters. I would personally rather comment/point out what is wrong with an answer without downvoting,but when I feel I need to cast a downvote, I do not understand why I should be punished. | |
| Feb 21, 2017 at 17:39 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackMath/status/834095313510080512 | ||
| Feb 5, 2017 at 20:54 | comment | added | Chaya Cooper | @Hurkyl If that's the case, it sounds like an unintended flaw in the system that users could exploit to game their reps. | |
| Feb 2, 2017 at 23:51 | comment | added | amWhy | @SimplyBeautifulArt Oh, I agree about that. It's easy to realize that, when one has 20k+ rep, like you and me, in the whole scheme of things, 1 pt. is, literally, nothing. And it is nothing at all. | |
| Feb 2, 2017 at 23:29 | comment | added | Simply Beautiful Art | @amWhy I didn't mean it like that. My point was that -1 rep isn't something that should worry you so much. | |
| Feb 2, 2017 at 19:01 | comment | added | user361949 | One way to to address this would be to link the downvoting and commenting. If one downvotes and leaves a comment, no reputation change would happen. If downvoting happens without a feedback, one point (or more?) would be the price. I guess this shouldn't be hard to implement with a pop-up or something similar. Dunno if it would work in practice, though. | |
| Feb 2, 2017 at 16:13 | comment | added | The Count | I notice that a lot of people say "we need a penalty to prevent people going nuts" and others say "it isn't that much of a loss, don't worry". It can't be both, people! | |
| Feb 2, 2017 at 10:07 | comment | added | Widawensen | It is a reasonable mechanism. Downvoting can be from good-will as well from ill-will .. Downvoting costs only -1 so only users with high reputation which receive sometimes more than 100 points daily, can make this operation with easy hand, but they are experienced and responsible users of MSE. Btw what is learning in seeing that you have been downvoted without any comment? Better is to give tips how the answer should be improved and wait some time, day or two.. | |
| Jan 30, 2017 at 0:24 | comment | added | Tomáš Zato | @CarlMummert Just for the recodrd, reputation is pretty hard to earn for casual users like me who don't know much about math. | |
| Jan 29, 2017 at 20:59 | comment | added | copper.hat | @MorganRodgers: I can only speak from my own reactions, but I do not view up votes and down votes as 'symmetric'. Just like having someone compliment my boat's paint job is nice, it is far less useful than someone telling me that there is a leak in my boat. While knowing that there is a leak is useful, telling me where the leak is has far greater utility because I can fix it (hopefully). Having to reverse engineer someone's vote seems pointless. (Unfortunately, the only 'boat' I own is a BIC Electric Rock :-).) | |
| Jan 29, 2017 at 18:27 | comment | added | xxxxxxxxx | @copper.hat I don't think that's at all true; it lets the asker see how their questions are perceived by others, and the person who is downvoted can figure out the problem on their own. Is an upvote only helpful if it is explained? Moreover, there are some serious disincentives for explaining downvotes (I've received retaliatory downvotes on more occasions than I can count). | |
| Jan 27, 2017 at 2:35 | answer | added | Simply Beautiful Art | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jan 27, 2017 at 1:56 | comment | added | Shobhit | Yes, ok. Got it. | |
| Jan 27, 2017 at 1:56 | vote | accept | Shobhit | ||
| Jan 27, 2017 at 1:56 | comment | added | Simply Beautiful Art | You worry too much. I myself, have lost over 400 rep this year by placing bounties, so the -1 from downvotes is nothing. | |
| Jan 26, 2017 at 22:26 | answer | added | Travis | timeline score: 12 | |
| Jan 25, 2017 at 18:42 | comment | added | Shobhit | Thank u all for your views, satisfied. | |
| Jan 25, 2017 at 18:03 | answer | added | Robert Soupe | timeline score: 26 | |
| Jan 25, 2017 at 17:34 | comment | added | user14972 | @Shobhit: Do pay attention to the rate. As much as I've been active in the past and content to downvote, I've only managed to rake up 884 downvotes on questions and answers that haven't been deleted. (if you downvote an answer and it gets deleted, your reputation is refunded) If you got a -1 for every downvote I have, you'd still have plenty of reputation left over. And one doesn't even get -1 when downvoting a question. | |
| Jan 25, 2017 at 17:22 | comment | added | user14972 | @MarkMcClure: If only there was something in place to discourage gratuitous upvoting. | |
| Jan 25, 2017 at 17:20 | comment | added | copper.hat | Downvoting doesn't help unless one explains why? | |
| Jan 25, 2017 at 16:21 | comment | added | Carl Mummert | I think reputation is not so hard to earn. The deduction for downvoting can seem like a high cost at first, but with +10 for each upvote on an answer you write, you can downvote 10 times for each time someone upvotes you. So earning reputation is only hard if you have a hard time writing upvoted answers. Moreover, over time you accumulate a collection of answers which randomly attract upvotes from new viewers, allowing for a steady rep increase even if you don't answer any more questions. So I would try to ignore the penalty, and continue voting in ways that help the site. | |
| Jan 25, 2017 at 16:18 | comment | added | Mark McClure | I think that it's reasonable for there to be some price to pay for a downvote simply to discourage gratuitous downvoting. | |
| Jan 25, 2017 at 16:13 | history | edited | Martin Sleziak | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 25, 2017 at 16:01 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | Related older posts on this meta: -1 for downvote? and Why does the person who is downvoting an answer get a downvote himself? | |
| Jan 25, 2017 at 15:59 | history | edited | Martin Sleziak | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 25, 2017 at 15:28 | history | asked | Shobhit | CC BY-SA 3.0 |