Timeline for Should we be concerned with prolific downvoters?
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| Oct 22, 2022 at 13:25 | comment | added | Braiam | @JacobVlijm on average, 37.2 percent of all non-registered users votes are downvotes vs merely 10.8 percent of registered ones, despite having almost the same amount of votes. I would argue that we need more downvotes. | |
| Oct 10, 2022 at 8:32 | comment | added | muru | And that's not even counting the regular influx of people from other SE sites every time a question hits the HNQ - these users often just have the association bonus and can upvote but not downvote, leading to the out-of-proportion numbers of upvotes on HNQ posts. I strongly doubt the number of people reaching 125 rep rises as fast. | |
| Oct 10, 2022 at 8:30 | comment | added | muru | @JacobVlijm well, for generalizations, note that downvoting is only allowed at > 125 rep, but upvoting is allowed at > 15 rep. According to the SEDE, there are ~50k of the former vs ~ 300k of the latter (6x). You'd have to have downvote-happy users doing 6x what upvote happy people do to even come close to matching the potential damage. | |
| Oct 10, 2022 at 6:41 | comment | added | Jacob Vlijm | The number of my upvotes is a multiplication of my downvotes, but can't recognize myself in the generalization of your happy upvoters. I downvote if I see an answer that is utterly wrong or harmful, or answers that stay in a very poor state after comments to improve, or cannot be saved by an good edit anyway. Over time (really) often saw downvotes on posts that must have been for reasons of taste, or simply "I am having a bad day, feel like shooting at something". Then finally, there are indeed a few silly upvotes on bad posts. Pretty sure they are outnumbered by dubious downvotes though. | |
| Oct 10, 2022 at 0:07 | comment | added | muru | (a) Whether I do or do not, that's not for us to handle - that's what we have moderators for (see last para), and (b) if we do go on witch hunts of users with extreme skews, I believe the upvote-happy ones are more damaging and should be handled with priority over downvote-happy ones. | |
| Oct 9, 2022 at 20:24 | comment | added | Artur Meinild | So you honestly don't believe a person with 25-30 times more downvotes than upvotes have a negatively skewed bias? I personally believe that, and I also know for certain that it can be (and has been) an issue for the site (that was handled accordingly). | |
| Oct 9, 2022 at 10:59 | history | edited | terdon | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 9, 2022 at 7:31 | history | edited | muru | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 9, 2022 at 7:19 | history | answered | muru | CC BY-SA 4.0 |