Timeline for Allow an edit to notify downvoters: "I think I've fixed the issue now - please check"
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| Feb 25, 2023 at 0:39 | comment | added | Joe W | I am not saying that having a system to notify when a post you vote on gets updated but it should be something that the user choses to opt into on each post that they vote on. And this should be available for all posts as a posts quality can go down over time as well. | |
| Feb 25, 2023 at 0:36 | history | edited | Quassnoi | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 25, 2023 at 0:29 | comment | added | Quassnoi | @JoeW: This suggestion, by the way, was posted when only StackOverflow was around, and for the most part, its answers tend to be less polarizing. Probably it should be implemented on a site by site basis, because I can see how it can go wrong on, say, politics that you seem to frequent. | |
| Feb 25, 2023 at 0:28 | comment | added | Quassnoi | @JoeW: when I first read your comment, I thought that "spamming the user for taking action" meant "spamming the original poster, urging them to correct the post", but now I see that you meant "spamming the downvoter for downvoting an answer they think is beyond redemption". So what if the others think the post got improved (say, when its score goes above what it had been when you cast your downvote)? I would say that the downvoter should get notified if this happens, maybe with a debounce interval of a week or so. ➡ | |
| Feb 24, 2023 at 23:51 | comment | added | Joe W | That doesn't justify forcing inbox spam on a user who is taking correct action on a post. Not all posts can be saved through edits and user shouldn't be forced to get spammed as edits happen to the post or comments get added. There are questions on sites that I visit that get dozens of edits and dozens of comments none of which stop it from being a bad post. | |
| Feb 24, 2023 at 22:21 | comment | added | Quassnoi | @JoeW: so when the user does take action and the bad post becomes good, should the downvotes stay? | |
| Feb 23, 2023 at 21:36 | comment | added | Joe W | When a bad post gets chain edited or lots of comments on it that ends up spamming the user for taking action on a bad post. | |
| Oct 26, 2015 at 11:55 | history | bounty ended | Anko | ||
| Jun 9, 2013 at 14:17 | comment | added | Balog Pal | @StevenJeuris: for any vote it would create way too much noise. Normally posts get better not worse, I'd consider it very rare to see edit worth undoing upvote. | |
| May 18, 2012 at 11:58 | comment | added | Steven Jeuris | I'm the one who resurrected an old thread. ;p Agreed, tracking all votes would require too much work. | |
| May 18, 2012 at 11:42 | comment | added | Quassnoi | @StevenJeuris: sorry for resurrecting an old thread! But actually, good answers turn bad much much more rarely than vice versa. So making users to track upvotes complicates their lifes over the usefullness (unlike tracking downvotes). | |
| Jun 30, 2011 at 13:55 | comment | added | Steven Jeuris | +1 Actually, when you think about it, the same should hold for any vote. | |
| Jul 23, 2009 at 13:14 | history | answered | Quassnoi | CC BY-SA 2.5 |