Timeline for Should downvotes on questions be "free"?
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| May 8, 2011 at 6:46 | comment | added | Beth Lang | Maybe it has something to do with an ingrained drive in programmers (or maybe all people) to be better. They won't willingly take points off their score because they equate that to worth. It doesn't matter that the amount is insignificant or that the score is of little worth outside of this little community, it's the priciple of the thing. | |
| May 8, 2011 at 6:23 | comment | added | Jeff Atwood | the funny thing is, I think it should be exactly the other way around based on rep already. When you have only 50 rep, a -1 cost to you is 2% of your rep! But when you have, say, 10k rep.. the -1 should be insignificant. Yet, I've read dozens of comments from high rep users who won't downvote because they are unwilling to give up one point of rep. (see my comment to zeekay's answer for a recent example, but this comes up all the time.) | |
| May 8, 2011 at 6:14 | history | answered | Beth Lang | CC BY-SA 3.0 |