Timeline for Can we actually discourage downvotes?
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| Sep 13, 2012 at 7:37 | comment | added | vascowhite | @Purmou I guess some of us don't want the site overrun with mindless approval. | |
| Aug 30, 2012 at 23:30 | comment | added | Someone | By no means, by the way, am I saying get rid of downvotes--I'm simply saying we should encourage commenting and fixing before downvoting, and that downvoting should actually be a last resort as its meant to be. | |
| Aug 29, 2012 at 21:36 | comment | added | yannis | @Purmou No. For one, those posts could all have been answers, so your "evidence" has nothing to do with whether the 1 rep users are receiving the help they came here for. And even if some of those posts were questions, you have provided no evidence that they were somehow wrongly downvoted (how do you know there weren't helpful comments / edits and the OP just failed to respond to them?) | |
| Aug 29, 2012 at 19:30 | comment | added | Someone | I don't have solid evidence? The fact that over 500 users with 1 rep have deleted their downvoted posts is not evidence that they're not receiving the help they came here for? | |
| Aug 29, 2012 at 16:57 | comment | added | yannis | @Purmou If there was "mindless quality control" we would all be disappointed, however it appears that it's just your opinion and people generally disagree with it. You wrote a long(ish) question describing a problem you think exists, but if you don't provide us any solid evidence of the problem, I don't think you'll find many that will just blindly agree with you... | |
| Aug 29, 2012 at 16:18 | comment | added | Someone | I guess I'm the only one disappointed when the best part of this site is overridden by mindless quality control. Whatever. | |
| Aug 29, 2012 at 13:28 | comment | added | AakashM | @YannisRizos at first I thought you had some data explorer magic that made that query stop when it got to whoever was running it... but then I saw, no, it's just that of all the people that meet the criteria, the least downvote-y is me. Not sure what to think about that! | |
| Aug 29, 2012 at 11:39 | comment | added | vascowhite | @YannisRizos to be honest I didn't realise my voting was so skewed until this question prompted me to check. I probably won't change my habits though :) | |
| Aug 29, 2012 at 11:13 | comment | added | yannis | 316 upvotes and 1386 downvotes? Not bad! | |
| Aug 29, 2012 at 10:51 | history | edited | vascowhite | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 29, 2012 at 10:04 | history | answered | vascowhite | CC BY-SA 3.0 |