# What is this question worth?

I up-voted this question and its vote total remains $-1$. This seems like newbie-biting. Could others opine on this particular question.

• Most likely the people who downvoted the original version did not see that it was edited. Have you tried @-pinging some of the other users who commented on the question? Since there are new edits, those who downvoted before now has the option to remove the downvote. – Willie Wong Mar 13 '12 at 16:34
• Didn't downvote, but I'm tempted to after seeing the minimal effort/interaction from the OP. Your answer was helpful, MH... I wouldn't be that generous with such a user! – The Chaz 2.0 Mar 13 '12 at 17:50
• I don't think considerations of what the absolute vote total ought to be should determine whether or not you upvote a post. There is no notion of the true "worth" of any post, so your title is begging a meaningless question. (If a post is good but you think it deserves a score of 10 and it is currently at 20, will you downvote it?) See also this previous post on meta. – user856 Mar 13 '12 at 20:49
• @TheChaz : The question and answer are not only to be read by the one user who posted it. The question deals with a theoretical point that always arises in a certain kind of theory-of-statistics course. So others may benefit from it six weeks are five years hence. – Michael Hardy Mar 14 '12 at 18:18
• Please forgive me for being so shortsighted! – The Chaz 2.0 Mar 14 '12 at 19:16