Timeline for Let's Remove The Auto Downvote On Validated VLQ Flags (On Questions)
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| Jun 24, 2018 at 16:14 | comment | added | PeterJ | @MadScientist As someone who flags a lot of spam on sites where I don't have the rep to downvote the -1 on spam serves as a good indicator to others to look carefully at the post, some spam is fairly subtle and I think it's fair to say a lot of first post / late answer reviews are not so good. | |
| Jun 13, 2018 at 15:52 | history | edited | user50049 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 7, 2018 at 19:44 | answer | added | Shog9Mod | timeline score: 30 | |
| Jun 6, 2018 at 20:55 | answer | added | Monica Cellio | timeline score: 10 | |
| Jun 6, 2018 at 16:04 | comment | added | Mad Scientist | I'd go as far as to also remove this auto downvote for spam. I don't think it achieves much, if anything at all, and removing complexity here is a good thing in my opinion. Making spam less visible by downvoting it might even be counterproductive, as the goal is always deletion. There are far too many quirks in the SE system that make it hard to understand. | |
| Jun 6, 2018 at 15:25 | answer | added | Nathaniel is protesting | timeline score: 11 | |
| Jun 6, 2018 at 15:01 | comment | added | animuson StaffMod | @Ramhound The vote already gets retracted if the post ever attracts an upvote in the future. But that doesn't make an extra downvote for a valid flag any more justified. As I explained in a linked question, editing is the only situation where the flag will be validated and the post remains visible, which is possibly the biggest slap in the face for a user you can get. "I fixed my post as requested, and I got downvoted for it." Otherwise, the post is deleted, so who really cares if there's an extra downvote or not? No one is gonna be looking at it unless it gets fixed anyways. | |
| Jun 6, 2018 at 14:37 | comment | added | Ramhound | Is it really one user though? A user flags the question and somebody confirms, when the flag was reviewed, the flag was justified. It seems like the community user vote should be reversed automatically when the contribution is modified. Allowing a new flag to be issued, verified, and downvote issued if justified. | |
| Jun 6, 2018 at 14:35 | answer | added | Journeyman Geek | timeline score: 7 | |
| Jun 6, 2018 at 14:30 | comment | added | Taryn StaffMod | Yes, please. This has bugged me for years since one user basically is given the power to downvote twice - once with a helpful VLQ flag and once with their vote. | |
| Jun 6, 2018 at 14:26 | history | asked | user50049 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |