Return to Answer

Let me quote from the guidelines for downvoting in the Stackexchange network:

Let me quote from the guidelines for downvoting in the Stackexchange network:

• How to make Google Chrome work after a host name change?
  -3: Beginner who couldn't figure out what to do with an error message. They even came back and answered our questions from comments. Now at -3 it will be unlikely someone cares to read and help.

• Install libopencv-dev 32bit on 12.04 64bit
  -3: The OP needed help on broken packages with Multi Arch. We may not be able to resolve this but the question per se is neither sloppy nor effortless nor extreme.

• http://askubuntu.com/questions/338674/video-display-problems
  -3: An absolute Ubuntu novice is faced with severe video issues. They even posted a screenshot. The question needs more details alright, but it had downvotes without asking for clarification when I made my comment 5 hours after it was posted.

• http://askubuntu.com/questions/338675/what-are-some-good-low-spec-and-free-games
  +1/-4: This is an opinion based question - no debate - but it is clearly written and all information needed was given. Why not close it as dupe of the games question? This would not have led to these many auto-downvotes.

• What documentation and help resources are available for setting and examining UFW rules?
  -5: They asked for an API documentation but they chose a poor question title. What if we had edited the title to "Where do I find a documentation for UFW?". The question has an upvoted and accepted answer. By this it is now a downvote trap because the OP can not even delete it (even if they better edited the title IMO).

• http://askubuntu.com/questions/334939/can-i-try-out-ubuntu-without-deleting-windows
  +1/-8: This is only a dupe of almost the same question which has 32 upvotes.

• http://askubuntu.com/questions/335456/system-report-and-phishing-help
  -11: This is a poor question, no doubt. It was closed as NARQ which is fine. But why did that many downvotes follow then? Why don't we have a single "delete" vote up to now? This will not help anybody. In fact rewriting the question to something on how to perform penetration tests in Ubuntu would not be that bad, would it? Nobody will care to do that at this question's rate now.

• How to make Google Chrome work after a host name change?
  -3: Beginner who couldn't figure out what to do with an error message. They even came back and answered our questions from comments. Now at -3 it will be unlikely someone cares to read and help.

• Install libopencv-dev 32bit on 12.04 64bit
  -3: The OP needed help on broken packages with Multi Arch. We may not be able to resolve this but the question per se is neither sloppy nor effortless nor extreme.

• https://askubuntu.com/questions/338674/video-display-problems
  -3: An absolute Ubuntu novice is faced with severe video issues. They even posted a screenshot. The question needs more details alright, but it had downvotes without asking for clarification when I made my comment 5 hours after it was posted.

• https://askubuntu.com/questions/338675/what-are-some-good-low-spec-and-free-games
  +1/-4: This is an opinion based question - no debate - but it is clearly written and all information needed was given. Why not close it as dupe of the games question? This would not have led to these many auto-downvotes.

• What documentation and help resources are available for setting and examining UFW rules?
  -5: They asked for an API documentation but they chose a poor question title. What if we had edited the title to "Where do I find a documentation for UFW?". The question has an upvoted and accepted answer. By this it is now a downvote trap because the OP can not even delete it (even if they better edited the title IMO).

• https://askubuntu.com/questions/334939/can-i-try-out-ubuntu-without-deleting-windows
  +1/-8: This is only a dupe of almost the same question which has 32 upvotes.

• https://askubuntu.com/questions/335456/system-report-and-phishing-help
  -11: This is a poor question, no doubt. It was closed as NARQ which is fine. But why did that many downvotes follow then? Why don't we have a single "delete" vote up to now? This will not help anybody. In fact rewriting the question to something on how to perform penetration tests in Ubuntu would not be that bad, would it? Nobody will care to do that at this question's rate now.

Let me quote from the [guidelines for downvoting][1] in the Stackexchange network:

In case you still felt like having to downvote a question for lack of details, or otherwise inappropriate content: Please do come back to see if the question was edited to be able to revert your downvote. This sadly does not happen too often. [1]: http://stackoverflow.com/help/privileges/vote-down

Let me quote from the guidelines for downvoting in the Stackexchange network:

In case you still felt like having to downvote a question for lack of details, or otherwise inappropriate content: Please do come back to see if the question was edited to be able to revert your downvote. This sadly does not happen too often.

As per request here some examples of the last 30 days:

• How to make Google Chrome work after a host name change?
  -3: Beginner who couldn't figure out what to do with an error message. They even came back and answered our questions from comments. Now at -3 it will be unlikely someone cares to read and help.

• Install libopencv-dev 32bit on 12.04 64bit
  -3: The OP needed help on broken packages with Multi Arch. We may not be able to resolve this but the question per se is neither sloppy nor effortless nor extreme.

• http://askubuntu.com/questions/338674/video-display-problems
  -3: An absolute Ubuntu novice is faced with severe video issues. They even posted a screenshot. The question needs more details alright, but it had downvotes without asking for clarification when I made my comment 5 hours after it was posted.

• http://askubuntu.com/questions/338675/what-are-some-good-low-spec-and-free-games
  +1/-4: This is an opinion based question - no debate - but it is clearly written and all information needed was given. Why not close it as dupe of the games question? This would not have led to these many auto-downvotes.

• What documentation and help resources are available for setting and examining UFW rules?
  -5: They asked for an API documentation but they chose a poor question title. What if we had edited the title to "Where do I find a documentation for UFW?". The question has an upvoted and accepted answer. By this it is now a downvote trap because the OP can not even delete it (even if they better edited the title IMO).

• http://askubuntu.com/questions/334939/can-i-try-out-ubuntu-without-deleting-windows
  +1/-8: This is only a dupe of almost the same question which has 32 upvotes.

• http://askubuntu.com/questions/335456/system-report-and-phishing-help
  -11: This is a poor question, no doubt. It was closed as NARQ which is fine. But why did that many downvotes follow then? Why don't we have a single "delete" vote up to now? This will not help anybody. In fact rewriting the question to something on how to perform penetration tests in Ubuntu would not be that bad, would it? Nobody will care to do that at this question's rate now.