Quantcast
Channel: How can we discourage over-downvoting on questions? - Meta Stack Overflow
Browsing all 3 articles
Browse latest View live

Answer by deceze for How can we discourage over-downvoting on questions?

The main problem I see here is that downvotes are taken so damn personal. A downvote does not mean "you are a bad person and you should feel bad, go die in a corner". But that's how they're often...

View Article



Answer by user2140173 for How can we discourage over-downvoting on questions?

Only after considering commenting (so OP can learn)No. Someone has spend a good amount of time to put a help-centre together. 99% of any Stack Overflow newbie (not newbie in programming) needs-to-know...

View Article

How can we discourage over-downvoting on questions?

Some people go a bit over the top downvoting… It isn't exactly welcoming to new users. My process is this:Is it a good question? Upvote. If not:Spam? Flag. Otherwise:Very obviously bad? …Are you sure?...

View Article
Browsing all 3 articles
Browse latest View live




Latest Images