Timeline for What could be legitimate reasons for heavily downvoting a post on meta [duplicate]
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| Jun 30, 2019 at 3:05 | review | Reopen votes | |||
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| Jun 24, 2019 at 18:52 | history | edited | anon | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
here you go mari lou
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| Jun 24, 2019 at 18:20 | comment | added | anon | @Mari-LouA but title edited as suggested | |
| Jun 24, 2019 at 18:18 | comment | added | anon | @Mari-LouA 13 downvotes is nothing..... Unless you only have 250 rep in like 6-7 months | |
| Jun 24, 2019 at 18:17 | history | edited | anon | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 24, 2019 at 15:35 | review | Reopen votes | |||
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| Jun 24, 2019 at 15:33 | comment | added | anon | @SonictheBracketedHedgehog thanks so much for that | |
| Jun 24, 2019 at 15:28 | comment | added | Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog | @INLOwnerInnonetlife By following these instructions. | |
| Jun 24, 2019 at 15:27 | comment | added | anon | @SonictheBracketedHedgehog how do I o that? | |
| Jun 24, 2019 at 15:26 | comment | added | Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog | You can also get your rep back by requesting dissociation. | |
| Jun 24, 2019 at 15:26 | history | rollback | Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog |
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| Jun 24, 2019 at 15:18 | history | edited | anon | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 24, 2019 at 15:17 | comment | added | anon | I hate this effing system sometimes. Can't even delete it even though it's ate 22 rep and probably more. | |
| Jun 24, 2019 at 15:12 | vote | accept | CommunityBot | ||
| Jun 24, 2019 at 15:05 | history | duplicates list edited | Shadow Wizard | duplicates list edited from What is Meta Stack Exchange, and how does it work? to What is Meta Stack Exchange, and how does it work?, Does meta have to mean murder? | |
| Jun 24, 2019 at 13:51 | comment | added | Nicol Bolas | @Mari-LouA: "It's a duplicate, which is supposed to have some value" No, being a duplicate in and of itself is not and should not be a shield from voting. Duplicates can be good or bad, depending on what is in them. Some duplicates are more valuable than others. If the duplicate is poorly phrased, for example, then it will attract downvotes. And that's not wrong. And on Meta, things that tend to attract downvotes are thinly-disguised rants against the community. Like this post. | |
| Jun 24, 2019 at 10:04 | comment | added | Rory Alsop | If a post has 10 downvotes or not has absolutely nothing to do with whether I put a down vote on it. I will downvote (on meta) if I disagree with the post, or think it is not a good question. | |
| Jun 24, 2019 at 8:03 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A Слава Україні | @Marshmallow I am not denying anyone their privilege to cast a downvote, users can express their assent or dissent on announcements, feature requests, and discussion, but when a post is already closed as a duplicate and has (for example) -10 why continue to pile on the downvotes? It's a duplicate, which is supposed to have some value, it's not off-topic. | |
| Jun 24, 2019 at 7:07 | comment | added | M.A.R. | @Mari I have, and again, why must someone not exercise their vote just because it's closed and sitting at -10? I quote "This will only invite more downvotes as it's true there is a somewhat herd mentality that governs this site." and I myself said "It does happen sometimes". It's the assumption that dismisses these pile-up votes as inherently groupthink that I find unfounded. | |
| Jun 24, 2019 at 6:11 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A Слава Україні | @Marshmallow have you never noticed a perfectly legitimate question but closed as a duplicate earning something like >-15 votes? What motivates a user to downvote a post that is already -10 and closed? Why twist the dagger in the wound even further? [NB Instances of spam and wildly off-topic or offensive posts do not count.] | |
| Jun 24, 2019 at 6:05 | comment | added | M.A.R. | @Mari RE your latest comment, I don't follow. When was it ever stated that those are the only (semi-legitimate) reasons for a downvote? | |
| Jun 24, 2019 at 6:03 | comment | added | M.A.R. | @Mari what is that observation? That downvoted posts tend to get more downvotes? What I'm getting at is that's not necessarily groupthink, i.e. it's not because others thought to downvote this. Meta.SE commoners are meta veterans such as yourself, and they're not that hasty or reckless in their judgement. | |
| Jun 24, 2019 at 6:02 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A Слава Україні | @Marshmallow There is nothing about this question that is offensive, belittling, whiny, or aggressive in its tone, but it will continue to gather downvotes because it has already attracted a significant number. Maybe now some users will read my comments and refrain from downvoting, because on social media, and like it or not SE is part of the shebang, (some users will deny it and say that SE is not a forum), on social media people want, need, to feel part of a group, and expressing a vote makes them feel "not alone". That's how I see it. | |
| Jun 24, 2019 at 6:00 | review | Reopen votes | |||
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| Jun 24, 2019 at 5:56 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A Слава Україні | @Marshmallow I based my "assumption" on observation. The term "herd mentality" exists for a reason. | |
| Jun 24, 2019 at 5:48 | comment | added | M.A.R. | @Mari-LouA I find your groupthink assumption mostly unfounded. It does happen sometimes (usually in close votes rather than up/downvotes) but how can you be sure it's herd mentality rather than most of the voters deciding the post in its own merit and not the score? It's more plausible for an unpopular opinion to go from +2/-10 to +4/-20, that's just probabilities, and not necessarily groupthink. | |
| Jun 24, 2019 at 5:37 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A Слава Україні | On the other hand, you cannot have been looking very far there are maybe thousands of posts that have over +20 and hundreds that have >+100 | |
| Jun 24, 2019 at 5:30 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A Слава Україні | Because meta has a low turnover, you'll find your post will hang around on the newest page for as long as two days, if not more. This will only invite more downvotes as it's true there is a somewhat herd mentality that governs this site. You see, the number of regular users on meta is fairly narrow, (I suppose I am part of the "mob" now, myself) and posts complaining about downvotes, deleted comments, loss of rep, serial downvoting, accusations of bias and meanness etc, are a dime to a dozen here. Unfortunately, I cannot post my comment as an answer because your question is closed. | |
| Jun 24, 2019 at 5:21 | history | closed |
Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog Pierre.Vriens Himanshu Arulkumar Ward - Trying Codidact |
Duplicate of What is Meta Stack Exchange, and how does it work? | |
| Jun 24, 2019 at 4:56 | answer | added | M.A.R. | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jun 24, 2019 at 4:31 | comment | added | M.A.R. | @Storm that logic is flawed. Surely you don't expect every variant of the downvote-require-comment discussions/feature-requests to get a score of 1075? | |
| Jun 24, 2019 at 3:33 | comment | added | Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog | Another relevant discussion: Does meta have to mean murder? | |
| Jun 24, 2019 at 3:11 | comment | added | fbueckert | Why is downvoting a mob? Would upvoting be the same thing? Why isn't that a problem? | |
| Jun 24, 2019 at 2:50 | history | edited | This_is_NOT_a_forum | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Active reading.
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| Jun 24, 2019 at 2:43 | comment | added | Stormblessed | Yeah voting here’s weird. My question has -15 score, yet the thing it was closed as a dupe of after it already had 8 downvotes has +16 score. | |
| Jun 24, 2019 at 2:35 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jun 24, 2019 at 2:34 | answer | added | Journeyman GeekMod | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jun 24, 2019 at 2:28 | answer | added | PolyGeo | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 24, 2019 at 2:15 | comment | added | Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog | Voting rules on this site are different from most other Stack Exchange sites. In particular, one common reason for downvoting is simply to indicate disagreement, usually to a feature request; see How does Meta Stack Exchange work?. Also, see How do I participate in Meta and not die trying? and the general What's Meta? help page. | |
| Jun 24, 2019 at 1:59 | history | asked | anon | CC BY-SA 4.0 |