Timeline for Downvoting posts that are very popular but not especially good - is this an acceptable way to vote?
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| May 8, 2021 at 18:17 | vote | accept | RavenclawPrefect | ||
| Feb 27, 2021 at 10:23 | comment | added | Sarvesh Ravichandran Iyer | @MartinvanIJcken Furthermore, I am shifting my focus on the site from answering questions to moderation, at least slightly. Therefore, I am encountering the need to improve questions more. I now go through many more questions in a day and so I get to refine such bad practices as I had before. This includes putting your comment into practice, which I admit to be very efficient (like the practical evidence to your theory). If you'd like to know more about this, you can visit the CURED chatroom. | |
| Feb 27, 2021 at 10:00 | comment | added | Sarvesh Ravichandran Iyer | @MartinvanIJcken True. However, I usually don't do so if my message is the same as someone who has already commented. However, we have the same issue with up voting , which people don't think of as an issue. What do you like about my post that made you up vote it? I can understand the sentiments : for example, if I was grading a child and he/she got $10/10$, then what comment can I leave other than "well done!", whereas I'd have more to say if he/she got $4/10$. I still think that most up votes are unwarranted, and such behaviour as you mention should be encouraged for up votes as well. | |
| Feb 26, 2021 at 13:01 | comment | added | Poseidaan | @TeresaLisbon I for one believe downvoting should be done if and only if you are simultaneously adding a comment why. If you can't point out why you think the answer or question is bad, you can't possibly expect the person who wrote that answer (clearly believing it to be good) to somehow find out what you disliked about it. | |
| Feb 25, 2021 at 18:35 | comment | added | Joffan | I should add for new users' questions, it seems to me sensible to seek engagement and acknowledge any engagement you get, with some allowance for slower response times while the user works out how to respond on the site. If there seems to be potential for improving a question to MSE standards, I'd allow time for that to happen before reaching for downvotes or suggesting closure. | |
| Feb 22, 2021 at 19:33 | comment | added | Mark Bennet | Freely recognising good contributions is helpful, I think. There are badges awarded for good questions and answers as recognised by votes, and that is part of the ecology of the site. I think these have become rather harder to come by as the site has got busier and the turnover of questions has become greater. | |
| Feb 22, 2021 at 12:31 | comment | added | Joe | Regarding people being too downvote-averse, is there a rule of thumb for what your upvote : downvote ratio should be? For me, I have upvoted $1000$ times and downvoted $50$ times; I'm unsure if this is too much or too little. | |
| Feb 22, 2021 at 11:54 | history | edited | Alexander GruberMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 22, 2021 at 10:01 | comment | added | Sarvesh Ravichandran Iyer | AHA, like a true moderator! Indeed, people tend to be downvote averse. At least in my case, I broke the ice with this tendency only recently, and my thoughts were always : what if I wrote that answer/question which I were about to downvote, how would I feel? Not very good, right? Something like that , and then I would not downvote. But only recently have I started downvoting far more on merit, after seeing how it actually has an effect on improving the site. I think people need to see the improvement in site quality that constructive downvoting can bring about. The same goes for upvoting! | |
| Feb 22, 2021 at 7:58 | history | edited | Alexander GruberMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 22, 2021 at 7:52 | history | answered | Alexander GruberMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |