why the hatred? Only on askubuntu is just about every question down-voted. take this: https://askubuntu.com/questions/977961/failed-to-start-dockerd-after-installing-docker-with-snap-artful-17-10 even when there is a comment, like "what is the environment", generally that's *in* the question. There's nothing wrong with the question. Blah. It's unique to this specific stack overflow site. Sure, I get down-voted questions -- maybe even more than my fair share. My *perception* is that, at least recently, most every single question on askubuntu get's an initial downvote. sometimes this is canceled out to a zero, and that's fine. (For what it's worth, the rep/score isn't my concern, it's more that a down-voted question will garner fewer responses -- presumably.) It's possible that my perception is off. It just *seems* that someone(s) following my questions and downvoting them. hey, maybe I annoy them. I dunno. If it's random and or deserved then so be it. But I notice tha my questions on, particularly, linux stackoverflow, are better received. Maybe I just ask better questions there. But maybe not. I would expect the standards to be about the same.