Timeline for Should we get worried about in what direction Ask Ubuntu wanders?
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| Nov 24, 2013 at 23:08 | comment | added | Oli Mod | @Gilles We clearly disagree. My view is that by not commenting you're not letting somebody know why their post is substandard. That isn't a helpful because they then don't know how to fix it... Then it goes into the low quality review queue and some more people vote without commenting. Five people have spent a few minutes of time closing a problem that somebody has instead of helping. If the first person had just explained their problem, the post could have been improved and the OP's problem solved. | |
| Nov 24, 2013 at 22:30 | comment | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | Downvoting without commenting is not vandalism. There is such a thing as a stupid question, and as a wrong answer. Sometimes a close vote is all the indication that's useful. You should comment if you think that the post can be improved — otherwise, downvoting, voting/flagging to close if appropriate, and moving on is perfectly fine. | |
| Nov 23, 2013 at 17:19 | comment | added | Oli Mod | @Braiam but they're all down votes without comments. That's what I'm highlighting. And if you go back and delete your criticism-in-comment, you probably remove your vote. I don't deny that your #3 might account for a few of those but it's not the standard. I just checked 20 consecutive questions (taken from the middle of the stack so they're not super-new, not super-old) and just one had deleted comments. | |
| Nov 23, 2013 at 15:37 | comment | added | Braiam | Because it could be 1) a random dv 2) a vote before it was edited 3) there were comments before and then removed but the vote is still there... you know... votes that people don't go back and check when things are "fixed" | |
| Nov 23, 2013 at 15:34 | comment | added | Oli Mod | @Braiam why should those be excluded? | |
| Nov 23, 2013 at 15:27 | comment | added | Braiam | I improved the query, was selecting questions with up votes data.stackexchange.com/ubuntu/query/149752/… | |
| Nov 14, 2013 at 14:03 | comment | added | Jorge Castro | @aldorado the system already gives a user a popup when they downvote to leave a comment. | |
| Nov 14, 2013 at 12:59 | comment | added | Oli Mod | @BЈовић It doesn't. It deserves an edit. And if you don't have the time for that, leave a comment explaining your problem with the post. Even "I don't understand what you're asking because of the formatting" is better than nothing. 10 seconds invested and now the user knows they need to fix their post. | |
| Nov 14, 2013 at 12:49 | comment | added | BЈовић | now tell me this doesn't deserve down vote for the way it is written | |
| Nov 14, 2013 at 10:49 | comment | added | aldorado | Maybe this should be common sense, but it would help if a small set of the most important rules was permanently visible for every user ("If you vote down try to add a comment to clarify why this is not a good question!") or if a down vote would open a popup that reminds to add a comment, at least the first time you use this function. | |
| Nov 14, 2013 at 10:27 | history | edited | OliMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 1, 2013 at 18:05 | comment | added | Eric Carvalho | Until a few months ago, I was massively down voting old questions that was blatantly off-topic, poorly worded duplicates and unanswerable information-lacking abandoned questions (asked more than 1 year ago by 1 rep users that never came back). I thought this would help getting the site cleaner (by forcing them into automatic deletion), but I realized this simply wouldn't work, dozens of crappy question arise every day and additional information that could salvage many of them are never provided. So I stopped hunting and started to answer new questions and reviewing, especially flagging NAA. | |
| Nov 1, 2013 at 14:31 | comment | added | dobey | In the vast majority of my down votes (on questions at least), I also issue a close vote because it's off topic (not about ubuntu, or a bug report/u+1 question) or a duplicate. Voting duplicate usually leaves a comment automatically, and I think the close votes speak directly for the downvote, but the close voting isn't really visible until it's actually closed. For -1 on answers, I almost always add a comment as well. | |
| Nov 1, 2013 at 0:17 | history | edited | OliMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 1, 2013 at 0:02 | history | answered | OliMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |