Timeline for Deduction in rep for downvoting
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| Nov 25, 2019 at 5:43 | comment | added | Mirko | @RobertSoupe I stand corrected, "penalty" is the right term (even if I may think of it as a punishment, without reason). As to what could be done, I posted some suggestions in my question, a link provided in my previous comment. I may consider posting some of that here as an answer. | |
| Nov 25, 2019 at 5:11 | comment | added | Robert Soupe | @Mirko I think you meant "penalty," not "punishment." The latter carries the connotation that it's for something that is wrong regardless, while the former suggests something that is generally discouraged but might sometimes be necessary. As to your point that "there is much that could be done in finding the right balance," well, I disagree, but if you post in your own answer to this question some of that much that could be done, you might convince me to agree with you. | |
| Nov 25, 2019 at 2:19 | comment | added | Mirko | @RobertSoupe While I agree that one should avoid the added complexity of an arbiter (it won't work), I believe there is much that could be done in finding the right balance between: (i) The amount of reputation that a user gains when their answer is upvoted, (ii) the amount of reputation that a user loses when their answer is downvoted, (iii) the amount of reputation that a user loses when they downvote someone else's answer. I propose that any user could cast one downvote per day with no punishment math.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/30935/… | |
| Aug 1, 2017 at 19:19 | comment | added | Robert Soupe | @PhilJones That's a very good point, no pun intended. It's a balancing act. I suppose you could have an arbiter who reviews a downvoter's comment and refunds the point if he determines it was a good faith downvote. But if it was up to me, the added complexity of the arbiter would not be worthwhile enough to implement that system. | |
| Aug 1, 2017 at 15:59 | comment | added | user422112 | @RobertSoupe I understood your point. But tell me if suppose 2 guys have answered a question, and one among those is INCORRECT! Then if the other person who gave the answer correctly, he points out to the other guy his mistake in a comment and downvotes him, then what is the point in getting reputation downvoted? | |
| Feb 2, 2017 at 10:09 | comment | added | Widawensen | Clicking is generally much easier that to write some improving comment, so it is also mechanism inhibiting clicking.. | |
| Jan 27, 2017 at 2:13 | comment | added | Simply Beautiful Art | And yes, promote the sportsmanship badge XD | |
| Jan 27, 2017 at 2:00 | comment | added | Simply Beautiful Art | Personally, I prefer the competition. If I feel another answer of equal quality with mine, I will upvote it to help it catch up, and hopefully users will not focus on me as much. I do not care if one upvote will end up making an answer get 10 more upvotes than mine in the long run because the competition is healthy (and just because I type faster should not mean I get attention from users who upvote, leave, and never see the second answer to be posted) | |
| Jan 27, 2017 at 1:56 | vote | accept | Shobhit | ||
| Jan 25, 2017 at 18:43 | comment | added | Shobhit | Thank u for your answer. Understood. | |
| Jan 25, 2017 at 18:15 | history | edited | Robert Soupe | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
not sure about answer sorting reason, but not relevant to my point
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| Jan 25, 2017 at 18:12 | comment | added | Robert Soupe | @Martin I actually did not know that, I need to read that link you posted. | |
| Jan 25, 2017 at 18:07 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | You know that answers with the same score are sorted randomly and not depending on the time of the answer, right? See also: How are answers sorted? (Of course, it's different if you choose different ordering of answers - active or oldest instead of votes - but from your answer it seems that you are talking about the situation when a user views answers ordered by votes/score.) | |
| Jan 25, 2017 at 18:03 | history | answered | Robert Soupe | CC BY-SA 3.0 |