Timeline for Is there an auto delete point for negative value questions?
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| Jul 11, 2014 at 15:45 | history | edited | Braiam |
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| Aug 25, 2013 at 11:13 | comment | added | Eliah Kagan | @FEichinger Spammers want their spam to be more visible. We want it to be less visible. There is absolutely no truth to the idea that one shouldn't downvote spam. Of course, we should flag it, whether or not we downvote it. Flagging spam also makes it less visible, by the way--even before it is deleted, and whether or not it is also manually downvoted. That is the system working as intended, to make spam less visible. | |
| Aug 24, 2013 at 11:06 | history | edited | Simon | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Added another occurrence
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| Jun 24, 2013 at 5:01 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/AskUbuntu/status/349029412982890496 | ||
| Jun 23, 2013 at 10:54 | comment | added | Simon | @FEichinger Surely this is not the case when viewing the questions as NEWEST, which is the default view for AskUbuntu Questions Section. The newest question stays at the top no mater how many negative votes it gets, until another question is asked. | |
| Jun 23, 2013 at 10:39 | comment | added | user98085 | @gertvdijk The "official" phrasing is "When you vote down, you are nudging that content "down" the page, so it will be seen by fewer people". This translates to (for example) questions disappearing from the front page after a certain threshold (-4 on main). | |
| Jun 23, 2013 at 10:18 | comment | added | gertvdijk | @FEichinger How would downvoted posts be less visible? Is there a threshold to what questions get hidden from the listings? I am not aware of such filter on StackExchange. | |
| Jun 23, 2013 at 10:15 | comment | added | user98085 | @gertvdijk For one, non-spam downvoted posts take a while to be deleted. Secondly spam-flags can delete a post fully on their own - preventing the post from disappearing without being deleted reduces the amount of people that can see it and subsequently act upon it. The spam flag's own downvote is sufficient - and it helps everyone see just how many flags the post already has. | |
| Jun 23, 2013 at 1:31 | comment | added | gertvdijk | @FEichinger Are you sure about that we should not downvote it? Extremely low voted questions appear higher in the moderation tool - so it will generate more attention to 10k+ rep users. Also note that non-spam negative voted questions get nuked (see answer of Jorge). | |
| Jun 21, 2013 at 13:48 | comment | added | Simon | This something which is not made obvious. Thanks for the information | |
| Jun 21, 2013 at 12:54 | comment | added | user98085 | One thing of note, as I see those questions reached -9 votes: Do not downvote SPAM questions. Flags already generate their own automatic downvote - further downvotes reduce a spam question's visibility and make it harder for other people to find and subsequently flag them. | |
| Jun 19, 2013 at 15:02 | history | edited | Simon | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Changed the final paragraph to make it a bit more of a question
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| Jun 19, 2013 at 14:53 | history | edited | Simon | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Reworded so as to pose a question.
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| Jun 19, 2013 at 12:49 | answer | added | OliMod | timeline score: 10 | |
| Jun 19, 2013 at 12:45 | answer | added | Jorge Castro | timeline score: 9 | |
| Jun 19, 2013 at 12:16 | comment | added | guntbert | Please keep in mind that AskUbuntu (like all Stackexchange sites) is not intended as a forum (usually a place with sometimes very long discussions) but as a Question&Answer site. That doesn't invalidate your question but you might choose a different wording. | |
| Jun 19, 2013 at 9:41 | history | asked | Simon | CC BY-SA 3.0 |