Timeline for How should low-reputation MSE users express disagreement with a (proposed) network-wide change?
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| Jan 15, 2016 at 10:36 | comment | added | kjbartel | Ironicly, I can't down vote this answer....... | |
| Jan 5, 2016 at 8:08 | comment | added | Athari | @PatrickHofman You're missing the fact that there's much more to discussion than just upvotes and downvotes. Those who disagree can post an answer and share their concerns, can upvote such answer if it already exists, can comment etc. Providing convincing arguments matters much more than numbers next to questions and answers. SE owners understand that not all users can downvote, so I expect them to take that into account and not base their decision purely on votes. / On a side note, I think SE owners have already made a decision, so all this "discussion" is farce. But we'll see soon. :) | |
| Jan 5, 2016 at 7:36 | comment | added | Patrick Hofman | The point is: if there are 1000 users here. 500 can upvote and 500 can both up- and downvote. What if half of them disagrees? The net score will be 500/250, since only half can downvote. Do you really expect users en-masse to participate in Meta just to downvote one post? You know they won't. Still they should have influence on such huge decisions. | |
| Jan 5, 2016 at 7:31 | comment | added | Athari | @PatrickHofman My point is, I didn't want to participate on Meta back then, I didn't care about inner workings much, so saying that it was hard for me to receive upvotes on Meta doesn't make much sense. Of course, it may be hard for newbies to gain rep here, but we're talking about active users on other sites — it should be easy for them. | |
| Jan 5, 2016 at 6:36 | comment | added | Patrick Hofman | Yes, and this won't work for the majority that is affected by the change. That is the problem. The accepted answer just gives another point of view and a suggestion to make it better, maybe not the best suggestion, but the best for now. | |
| Jan 5, 2016 at 6:34 | comment | added | Nathan Tuggy | MSO voting patterns were not, as I understand it, all that different from MSE, since basically the same people were present; there's less clutter now, and somewhat more representation from smaller sites, but it's still the same site. Anyway, my point was that it wasn't a trivial thing for you; it required a couple of good posts that didn't just pop into your head on demand. | |
| Jan 5, 2016 at 6:30 | comment | added | Athari | @NathanTuggy MSE exists for less than two years. All rep I have here is due to being active on MSO. And I've been actually active on SE for less than three years. There's a big difference between having an account, having an active account, being an active on Meta, actively reviewing and editing posts, and almost becoming a moderator (4th on Ru.SO with 3 places). It's gradual, not instant. / +3/−4 = 22 rep — almost the required 24, even with such a controversial answer. ;) | |
| Jan 4, 2016 at 22:44 | comment | added | Nathan Tuggy | This seems ... I don't want to say hypocritical, but a little incongruous, as it took you almost three years to reach 125 rep here, and almost six months after your first post, a perfectly reasonable +4/-1 question. So your own history would seem to belie this. | |
| Jan 4, 2016 at 19:10 | history | answered | Athari | CC BY-SA 3.0 |