Timeline for What's the point of voting on questions (especially downvoting)?
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| Aug 26, 2018 at 17:49 | comment | added | pomsky | @muru Ah, thanks! My surviving/total ratio seems to be 308/2166 :-) | |
| Aug 26, 2018 at 14:12 | comment | added | muru | @pomsky in the Activity tab of your profile, the votes section, check downvotes. You'll only see posts you have downvoted that haven't been deleted (unlike, say posts where you cast close-votes). | |
| Aug 26, 2018 at 13:25 | comment | added | pomsky | @muru Just out of curiosity, how did you find the number of your "surviving downvotes"? Can this be accessible from the user profile? Or is there something at data.stackexchange.com? | |
| Aug 21, 2018 at 0:35 | comment | added | j-money | facepalm now that you've said this its actually quite clear from your first comment my mistake! | |
| Aug 20, 2018 at 22:59 | comment | added | muru | @j-money I dread forums because I have to read through tons of non-answers to get the answer - to even identify what the answer is - not because I have to read. Here, I can directly read the answer, and then choose whether to read through the comments. I don't mind long answers without a tldr, I read pretty quickly. | |
| Aug 20, 2018 at 20:56 | comment | added | j-money | Let me be clear. I'm not trying to start a flame war with this so please don't take this as disrespectful or as offense (and if you do, I am sorry for offending!) But your analogy of the forum as a library is great! I love it! But then you go on to say you dread forums where you have to actually read for an answer rather than scroll down and look for something like tl:dr. So would yo consider maybe UbuntuForms as a library? or something else? | |
| Aug 19, 2018 at 15:32 | comment | added | Zanna Mod | I've taken to sometimes favouriting questions that I want to downvote so I can downvote them later when sympathy upvotes are less likely. So annoying. | |
| Aug 19, 2018 at 4:51 | comment | added | muru | @j-money and that's why I dread the times when I have to go through Ubuntu or Arch or Steam forums. No telling if a post is good or bad, except by going through other replies. No telling if a better solution is available somewhere in page 12. No way to indicate on the post itself that it is dangerous or otherwise bad advice, except by making another post which or may not be seen. | |
| Aug 19, 2018 at 4:30 | comment | added | j-money | OK thanks! And thank you for the library analogy this hepls tremendously! However I look at other forums such as UbuntuForums that do not use the downvote system yet still seem to maintain a library of good answers. Or my personal favorite the arch forums though I know those are very well maintained by great users. And I guess everyone implements some form of cleanup in there own right! | |
| Aug 19, 2018 at 2:35 | history | answered | muru | CC BY-SA 4.0 |