Timeline for Redeem reputation for deleted negative answers?
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Mar 19, 2023 at 2:20 | comment | added | R.D. Alkire | Yeah, a lot of down-votes are not fair. You should be able to protect yourself from down-vote trolls by deleting the answer and keep the reputation you deserve | |
Jan 4, 2021 at 19:53 | comment | added | Dan Csharpster | I think that this does have the benefit of discouraging weak/bad/unconfident answers, but could also have the added side effect of discouraging answers in general. | |
Nov 29, 2016 at 5:44 | comment | added | Violapterin | (a link sent me here.) I agree with you, since I just deleted my own wrong answer (in Math), and wonder why reputation (rep) came back. This way, people may venture to post answer they themselves are not sure, and if wrong, just delete. Why so? The penalty (-2 each downvote) is already lighter than incentive (+5 each upvote), and people in general gain increasing rep easily. One should not care so much about rep, as if it were money...! It is just a measure to maintain the quality of SE. One should be responsible to his /her mistakes by permanently losing a tiny (-2) rep. | |
Jul 6, 2009 at 5:07 | history | answered | TheTXI | CC BY-SA 2.5 |