Timeline for Do we want to discourage pity votes on awful questions?
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| Sep 10, 2009 at 15:10 | comment | added | Shog9 | There was a time when closing worked rather well for this purpose, but that changed drastically with the introduction of "vote-to-close". We get only 12 close votes a day, and it takes 5 users voting to close a question. Down votes are both more plentiful, and take effect immediately - and they can be withdrawn if the author comes back and turns the question around in response to comments. | |
| Sep 9, 2009 at 12:22 | comment | added | innaM | Fair enough. I don't see any reasons to vote on questions either. I just thought I was the only one. | |
| Sep 8, 2009 at 6:31 | comment | added | cletus | @Manni: basically votes on answers make sense because it changes the relative ordering and helps identify the best answer. But what does voting on questions mean? Not a lot and that's what's happened. So I don't think there's much reason to downvote a question just like I don't think there's much reason to upvote them (unless they're exceptional in some way). | |
| Sep 8, 2009 at 6:26 | comment | added | Daniel Daranas | There is one valid reason to downvote: "This question is unclear and not helpful". (Of course I won't downvote a question about PHP just because I never use PHP so it is not useful at all to me, but that's the line between getting a sensible meaning out of a sentence and being a jerk.) | |
| Sep 8, 2009 at 6:08 | comment | added | innaM | Are you saying that there is no legitimate reason to ever downvote a question? | |
| Sep 8, 2009 at 5:31 | comment | added | Vinko Vrsalovic | Spot on. But, how to do it? | |
| Sep 8, 2009 at 0:47 | history | answered | cletus | CC BY-SA 2.5 |