Timeline for Should downvotes on questions be "free"?
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| Aug 30, 2017 at 11:47 | comment | added | I say Reinstate Monica | I downvoted this answer. .*bang*. .*bang*. .*shoot*. .*shoot*. | |
| Jan 28, 2015 at 21:47 | comment | added | live-love | Agreed. No cost makes it very easy to downvote a good question. I have noticed some users are just plain mean, they downvote to the limit, even good questions, and never upvote. Some users are not even bothering to post questions because they are afraid of revenge voting, or getting down voted. Very discouraging. In my opinion, only users with a certain contribution to the site should be able to downvote questions for free, not everyone. | |
| May 18, 2012 at 13:04 | comment | added | ruffin | Additionally, you should also have to leave a constructive, if very quick, comment if you downvote a question. There's no benefit to the user asking the bad question and no way to help insure it doesn't happen again if you simply downvote for free. Some investment (time, past reputation gains, etc) before free downvotes is appropriate. | |
| May 31, 2011 at 16:15 | comment | added | Lee Louviere | I paid nothing for this upvote. And I enjoyed it. I think I'll find plenty of people frustrated at commentless downvotes. | |
| May 16, 2011 at 15:14 | comment | added | Aarobot | I paid for this answer downvote. It was worth it. | |
| May 9, 2011 at 6:02 | history | edited | systempuntoout | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 8, 2011 at 22:11 | comment | added | T.J. Crowder | @Jeff: Yes, absolutely. (Free downvotes on answers would be...such a mess.) | |
| May 8, 2011 at 22:09 | comment | added | Jeff Atwood | free downvotes on questions only. And @t.j remember that you have to have 125 rep to downvote at all. | |
| May 8, 2011 at 22:09 | history | edited | systempuntoout | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 8, 2011 at 21:31 | history | edited | systempuntoout | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 8, 2011 at 21:29 | comment | added | T.J. Crowder | Curiously, I was just coming to this question to suggest that the free downvotes should be an earned privilege. I think it's a good idea, but I do tend to think that it's not something that a brand-new account should have. | |
| May 8, 2011 at 21:25 | history | answered | systempuntoout | CC BY-SA 3.0 |