Timeline for Regarding the etiquette of removing "Accepted" but downvoted Answers
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:25 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Nov 26, 2016 at 16:25 | comment | added | AnotherKiwiGuy | Its ok. I gave up in the end. The OP removed the answer, and I thought "Stuff it" and just deleted the post altogether. There's no pleasing some people. The OP said it was fine to begin with, then someone complained I didn't do it right, then someone complained I wasn't explaining. You cant please all the people all the time, right? :) | |
| Nov 25, 2016 at 12:25 | comment | added | Mark Kirby |
@ThatGuy Looking at the edits you made, the amount of surplus info is out of control, you should of deleted the old stuff and just kept the new correct part, that is why I would guess you got another downvote.
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| Nov 17, 2016 at 0:44 | comment | added | AnotherKiwiGuy | LOL! I edited the question, and immediately got another downvote. | |
| Nov 14, 2016 at 11:14 | comment | added | Mark Kirby | I am not saying wanting to keep rep is a bad thing, we all want to keep our rep of course. I am simply trying to reassure you that one vote is no big deal. "Honestly, stepping away from AU would not be an issue to me, nor would the community feel the loss. I'm not a huge asset to have around, and sometimes my opinions overtake my desire for pure reason." Every user is an asset, no matter there rep, your question is very valid and exactly what meta is for. It takes time to get good here, you are doing well, please keep it up. | |
| Nov 14, 2016 at 10:29 | comment | added | AnotherKiwiGuy | Unfortunately, you're reading this as something I'd take personally. Honestly, stepping away from AU would not be an issue to me, nor would the community feel the loss. I'm not a huge asset to have around, and sometimes my opinions overtake my desire for pure reason. That said, I'd like to improve, that's why I'm here. Not for any other real reason. I posted this originally to start the discussion. No one else had, and thought it was something that should be talked about. This has no real emotional significance. Just a topic I thought might be worthy. :) | |
| Nov 14, 2016 at 9:30 | comment | added | Mark Kirby | Seems to me rep was your concern, you did not even mention abuse in the question "Do I leave it, and risk losing more rep?" but that is my point anyway, it can't be abused, it would take 8 downvotes to cancel out the accept and only the very worst post get anything like that many votes. | |
| Nov 13, 2016 at 21:27 | comment | added | AnotherKiwiGuy | Thanks. I think my primary concern was the potential for abuse. | |
| Nov 13, 2016 at 21:18 | comment | added | Mark Kirby | It is worth noting, an accept is worth 15 rep and a downvote is -2, so by removing your answer, you would loose 13 rep. | |
| Nov 13, 2016 at 19:36 | vote | accept | AnotherKiwiGuy | ||
| Nov 13, 2016 at 19:29 | answer | added | Thomas WardMod | timeline score: 9 | |
| Nov 13, 2016 at 19:02 | comment | added | AnotherKiwiGuy | I understand. At least it kind of answers some of my question, thanks. | |
| Nov 13, 2016 at 19:00 | comment | added | TheWanderer | I was respoding to your abuse speculation. | |
| Nov 13, 2016 at 18:59 | comment | added | AnotherKiwiGuy | Oh, I get that. But my question is related to this specific instance in the linked question. I mean, you can see it's not a bad answer, and the OP even stated it fixed the issue. If it were a poor answer, then I would understand the downvote, and edit/remove accordingly. But it isn't. Is it? | |
| Nov 13, 2016 at 18:58 | comment | added | TheWanderer | As for actual voting abuse, if someone is serial voting all your posts (whether up or down) there is a system in place that will detect these votes and reverse them. | |
| Nov 13, 2016 at 18:58 | comment | added | TheWanderer | This is true, but the situation you describe is not abuse. If your answer is so bad that it gets enough downvotes for you to lose 454 rep (that'd be 227 downvotes), then there are ways to delete it. | |
| Nov 13, 2016 at 18:55 | comment | added | AnotherKiwiGuy | So what you're saying is that the system is open to abuse? I mean, for a low rep user, if there was enough disagreement, you could have one answer literally destroy all of your reputation. | |
| Nov 13, 2016 at 18:52 | comment | added | TheWanderer | No, because that would be stupid. Voting is there so that people can voice their opinion on something. We aren't going to take that away. There are cases when OP will just accept the first answer posted, just because it was posted. | |
| Nov 13, 2016 at 18:51 | comment | added | AnotherKiwiGuy | Ouch. That seems counter productive. If the answer cannot be removed, shouldn't voting on it also be disabled after it's been accepted? | |
| Nov 13, 2016 at 18:50 | comment | added | TheWanderer | You should also ping the user (@username) so the know you've made an edit. | |
| Nov 13, 2016 at 18:49 | comment | added | TheWanderer | I don't know if you can remove your answer if it's been accepted. | |
| Nov 13, 2016 at 18:32 | history | edited | AnotherKiwiGuy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 13, 2016 at 18:25 | history | asked | AnotherKiwiGuy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |