Timeline for What is the rationale behind only downvoting incorrect answers instead of voting to delete?
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| Jan 16, 2013 at 18:09 | comment | added | tripleee | +1 Good question. I had assumed that a lot of people habitually click arrows and ignore the small text links with "close", "flag", etc but maybe there is more to it. | |
| Jan 16, 2013 at 17:04 | answer | added | Servy | timeline score: 18 | |
| Jan 16, 2013 at 16:28 | answer | added | xpda | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jan 16, 2013 at 13:14 | answer | added | yannis | timeline score: 17 | |
| Jan 16, 2013 at 12:53 | answer | added | Gareth Rees | timeline score: 19 | |
| Jan 16, 2013 at 12:41 | comment | added | Martijn Pieters | Wikipedia citations are not that good an example though; and WP suffers from the occasional edit war as different factions disagree over what makes a correct edit. We don't have that problem here; both sides add an answer and the rest of us vote. | |
| Jan 16, 2013 at 12:39 | comment | added | Martijn Pieters | Note that you get a badge if you delete your own down-voted answer, so owners are encouraged to do so. And I do vote-to-delete 'non-answers', posts that do not contain an actual answer (wrong or otherwise). | |
| Jan 16, 2013 at 12:37 | comment | added | JonW | @MartijnPieters: Well yes, but Stack Exchange is a repository for questions and answers, not examples of bad answers with reasoning. Wikipedia doesn't retain the rejected edits in plain view for people when someone adds a citation that is wrong or irrelevant - it gets deleted because the overall article would suffer as a result. | |
| Jan 16, 2013 at 12:35 | comment | added | Martijn Pieters | And showing a wrong answer can in and of itself be informative too. "This is how not to do it." | |
| Jan 16, 2013 at 12:35 | answer | added | paul23 | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jan 16, 2013 at 12:34 | comment | added | Martijn Pieters | Because not everyone is in a position to judge what is a wrong answer. Voting makes that determination much more democratic. Don't agree an answer is wrong? Vote it up! | |
| Jan 16, 2013 at 12:33 | history | asked | JonW | CC BY-SA 3.0 |