Timeline for Does the downvote tooltip on questions contradict site policy?
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| May 11, 2016 at 16:10 | comment | added | user1228 | And, having the "x, y, and z" @Kendra mentioned means that we won't be wasting our time suggesting them. Not providing that info to people who are volunteering their time to help an anonymous person with their problem is kinda rude. | |
| May 11, 2016 at 2:01 | history | edited | Wad Cheber | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 11, 2016 at 1:27 | answer | added | Kate Gregory | timeline score: 11 | |
| May 10, 2016 at 22:24 | comment | added | Ramhound | If a read a question, and Google a solution myself, and the solution is the first result how is that question helpful. Often times that link goes back to (SO,SU, ect); Yes I understand that viewpoint isnt popular but when you literally see the same question every day it's hard not to form that view. | |
| May 10, 2016 at 21:47 | answer | added | Shog9Mod | timeline score: 12 | |
| May 10, 2016 at 21:41 | comment | added | Kendra | Also note that research does not necessarily require googling something. For example, if I'm asking on SO about how to fix an error, my "research" could be as simple as "Here's the error I'm getting. I tried x, y, and z, and those didn't work because j." with x, y, and z being different code samples of things I've tried, and j either being a new error I get or an incorrect output. I'd have a decent question, and I may never have googled the issue. | |
| May 10, 2016 at 21:33 | comment | added | Catija | Can there not be a place between these two extremes? Every site, I think, has some limitation on the triviality of a question for it to be considered as valuable to the site. There's a difference between LMGTFY and someone not doing basic research to even determine if their question is based on facts. | |
| May 10, 2016 at 21:22 | comment | added | Kendra | A couple quick problems I see in your question: 1) Downvoting is not the same as attacking users. The question you linked seems to be more about the "LMGTFY" link problem a while back, which was an attack on the user. Downvotes are instead about the quality of the post. If the post shows no effort and to me looks like a lazy question, I have the right to downvote it. I have no issue with the user, just with the post. 2) "... DVing people who haven't really done anything wrong?" As I touched on in my previous point, downvotes are not for punishing users, just signalling quality.. | |
| May 10, 2016 at 21:18 | history | asked | Wad Cheber | CC BY-SA 3.0 |