There is something I have seen in both stackoverflow and askubuntu. That is happening way more at stackoverflow but even at AskUbuntu.

There are questions with minus ratings and negative votes (for instance -1 or -2) aimed towards simple or obvious questions. As far as I know voting down is used to indicate a question which lacks quality. As Privileges-Vote Down states:

When should I vote down?

Use your downvotes whenever you encounter an egregiously sloppy, no-effort-expended post, or an answer that is clearly and perhaps dangerously incorrect.

I do not think that questions that expect an obvious answer should be voted down. Some examples with minus votes are:

Dual Boot Ubuntu and Windows 7 on 1TB

Why is Ubuntu more laggy than Windows 7 home on netbook

Does a firewall come with KDE?

How to install firefox from tar.gz?

Are these questions dangerously incorrect? Or do they show no-effort?

I find all of them correct, even if most of them expect an obvious answer. For example, it may seem quite obvious how to dual boot Ubuntu and Windows7, and sometimes how to install a program from tarball is three simple steps.

But that is why these users created their accounts and posted a question expected to get an answer from us.

I mean, we have all have had to start from somewhere. A lot of us have had a "Is it plugged in" moment. And programmer start learning a language by writing their first "Hello World!" program.

So why do other experienced users tend to downvote these types of questions like the above ones?

Why don't we try to be modest and help even the new users. Is it hard?

There is something I have seen in both stackoverflow and askubuntu. That is happening way more at stackoverflow but even at AskUbuntu.

There are questions with minus ratings and negative votes (for instance -1 or -2) aimed towards simple or obvious questions. As far as I know voting down is used to indicate a question which lacks quality. As Privileges-Vote Down states:

When should I vote down?

Use your downvotes whenever you encounter an egregiously sloppy, no-effort-expended post, or an answer that is clearly and perhaps dangerously incorrect.

I do not think that questions that expect an obvious answer should be voted down. Some examples with minus votes are:

Dual Boot Ubuntu and Windows 7 on 1TB

Why is Ubuntu more laggy than Windows 7 home on netbook

Does a firewall come with KDE?

How to install firefox from tar.gz?

Are these questions dangerously incorrect? Or do they show no-effort?

I find all of them correct, even if most of them expect an obvious answer. For example, it may seem quite obvious how to dual boot Ubuntu and Windows7, and sometimes how to install a program from tarball is three simple steps.

But that is why these users created their accounts and posted a question expected to get an answer from us.

I mean, we have all have had to start from somewhere. A lot of us have had a "Is it plugged in" moment. And programmer start learning a language by writing their first "Hello World!" program.

So why do other experienced users tend to downvote these types of questions like the above ones?

Why don't we try to be modest and help even the new users. Is it hard?

That's something I have seen in both stackoverflow and askubuntu. That is happening way more at stackoverflow but even at AskUbuntu it is an active situation.

There are questions with minus ratings and negative votes (for instance -1 or -2) at "silly" questions. As far as I know voting down is used to indicate a question which lacks quality. As Privileges-Vote Down states:

When should I vote down?

Use your downvotes whenever you encounter an egregiously sloppy, no-effort-expended post, or an answer that is clearly and perhaps dangerously incorrect.

I do not think that silly questions or questions that expect an obvious answer should be voted down. Some examples with minus votes are:

Dual Boot Ubuntu and Windows 7 on 1TB

Why is Ubuntu more laggy than Windows 7 home on netbook

Does a firewall come with KDE?

How to install firefox from tar.gz?

Let's be honest. Are these questions dangerously incorrect? Are they no-effort posts? I find all of them correct, even if most of them expect an obvious answer. For example, for us(the experienced users) it's quite obvious how to dual boot Ubuntu and Windows7 and how to install a program from tarball.

But that's why these unexperienced users created their accounts and posted a question expected to get an answer from us, the more experienced users.

I mean honestly, we have all started from zero. Even the super duper ubuntu user has started as "How do I power on my computer?" and a programmer by writing his first "Hello World!" program in 3 lines. So why do other "experienced" users tend to downvote silly questions like the above ones? The only reason I have to that is complete arrogance.

Why don't they try to be modest and help even the absolute "noob" by not trying to show themselves as superheroes? Is it really that hard? If you think more precisely you will see that:

You are 1 person out of some millions of your country...

1 person out of 7 Billion people...

On 1 planet out of 8 planets...

In 1 star system out of 100 billion star systems...

In 1 galaxy out of 100 billion galaxies....

and you are enormously insignificant.( like me :)

There is something I have seen in both stackoverflow and askubuntu. That is happening way more at stackoverflow but even at AskUbuntu.

There are questions with minus ratings and negative votes (for instance -1 or -2) aimed towards simple or obvious questions. As far as I know voting down is used to indicate a question which lacks quality. As Privileges-Vote Down states:

When should I vote down?

Use your downvotes whenever you encounter an egregiously sloppy, no-effort-expended post, or an answer that is clearly and perhaps dangerously incorrect.

I do not think that questions that expect an obvious answer should be voted down. Some examples with minus votes are:

Dual Boot Ubuntu and Windows 7 on 1TB

Why is Ubuntu more laggy than Windows 7 home on netbook

Does a firewall come with KDE?

How to install firefox from tar.gz?

Are these questions dangerously incorrect? Or do they show no-effort?

I find all of them correct, even if most of them expect an obvious answer. For example, it may seem quite obvious how to dual boot Ubuntu and Windows7, and sometimes how to install a program from tarball is three simple steps.

But that is why these users created their accounts and posted a question expected to get an answer from us.

I mean, we have all have had to start from somewhere. A lot of us have had a "Is it plugged in" moment. And programmer start learning a language by writing their first "Hello World!" program. 

So why do other experienced users tend to downvote these types of questions like the above ones?

Why don't we try to be modest and help even the new users. Is it hard?