Timeline for What are downvotes on a Meta Question supposed to mean?
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| Mar 16, 2017 at 15:32 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Mar 16, 2017 at 15:32 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Mar 16, 2017 at 15:32 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Apr 15, 2015 at 1:01 | comment | added | au revoir | I truly dislike the model of downvoting anything on meta, though I will grudgingly accept downvoting feature requests you disagree with. I don't like it when valid discussion questions are hidden from the community due to a quick succession of downvotes, removing the post from the meta front page and preventing it from appearing in the hot meta posts sidebar. | |
| Apr 15, 2013 at 14:12 | history | edited | FAE |
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| Apr 13, 2013 at 22:03 | comment | added | Shadur-don't-feed-the-AI | Since this is a question about meta questions, shouldn't this be on meta.meta.gaming.stackexchange.com ? | |
| Apr 9, 2013 at 4:39 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/TheArqade/status/321482527552442369 | ||
| Apr 5, 2013 at 11:15 | comment | added | user9983 | @galacticninja It's not that the community prefers it that way, it's just the truth. It'd be great if everyone voted responsibly, but they don't. | |
| Apr 5, 2013 at 7:46 | comment | added | galacticninja | Based on the comments, on both this question and the answers, and the current top-voted answer, I feel that the community prefers the 'anything goes', 'no guidelines or whatsoever' approach to voting on Meta. AKA "mob rule". | |
| Apr 4, 2013 at 19:35 | comment | added | Sterno | Can I get in on this? I like to get mad about stupid things too. | |
| Apr 4, 2013 at 18:50 | comment | added | user9983 | @Retrosaur I'm not the one who downvoted due to incoherency. | |
| Apr 4, 2013 at 18:35 | comment | added | childe | How is my English unclear? Are you suggesting that I switch to another language that he can understand? Show me something from my questions that shows "uncoherency" | |
| Apr 4, 2013 at 18:13 | comment | added | user9983 | Perhaps you could insult each other about the spoilers question on the spoiler question's post. Or even better, not at all. I don't know if you're saying LP wanted a longer question or a shorter one, but neither of those have to do with coherency. Downvoting something that is unclear is what downvoting is for. | |
| Apr 4, 2013 at 17:43 | comment | added | Frank | @Retrosaur No, we expect you to be coherent. If you can't expend the effort to explain yourself, you can't expect us to expend the effort to understand what you're saying. | |
| Apr 4, 2013 at 17:38 | comment | added | childe | @LessPop_MoreFizz That's the problem with users like you. You expect TL:DR questions, rather than reading everything I wrote. | |
| Apr 4, 2013 at 15:42 | comment | added | LessPop_MoreFizz | @Retrosaur No, I downvoted because a first grader could've made what they were asking for more clear than you did. I still have no idea what your original question was calling for other than "It should be different somehow." | |
| Apr 4, 2013 at 15:13 | comment | added | childe | @LessPop_MoreFizz So in short, you're voting based on grammar and formatting, and not about the actual content of the post. Sounds more to me like "I don't have time to read Retrosaur's post, but because it's Retrosaur, I'll downvote" | |
| Apr 3, 2013 at 13:41 | comment | added | LessPop_MoreFizz | @Robotnik I downvoted Retrosaurs question because it was unclear and incoherent. I didn't downvote your answer because it is clear and concise and contained. | |
| Apr 3, 2013 at 11:24 | answer | added | EBongo | timeline score: -1 | |
| Apr 3, 2013 at 5:55 | comment | added | Robotnik Mod | @FEichinger - I agree. Whilst some of Retrosaur's posts have been a little out there lately, I didn't find anything wrong with the spoilers one. It seemed to be a reasonable suggestion, which I upvoted and then answered. On that post in question, my suggestion received +5/-1 votes, whereas the question received +3/-6. Seeing as I agree with Retrosaur's suggestion (and stated as much in my answer), It would seem that people voted on the person, not the policy (a problem in most democratic politics everywhere IMHO) | |
| Apr 3, 2013 at 0:29 | comment | added | EBongo | @FEichinger Yes, I could have picked various questions from that stable. I chose this one because the voting could be for any of the above reasons, and hence the confusion. Surely I just hurt my brain trying to understands what votes mean, but as they are one of the primary ways we show consensus on the site - it seems worthwhile to at least discuss what they mean. | |
| Apr 2, 2013 at 23:06 | comment | added | user98085 | @MatthewRead Oh, I'm pretty sure (3) applies to pretty much any post by Retrosaur in recent days. Not necessarily as the primary reason, but surely one thing to tick off a downvote where it would otherwise not be given. | |
| Apr 2, 2013 at 22:52 | comment | added | Matthew Read | I'd contest your claim about the spoilers post. It's incoherent, IMO, and -4 probably under-represents the people who think (1) applies and it's not the end of the world. | |
| Apr 2, 2013 at 22:39 | comment | added | LessPop_MoreFizz | All of the Above. | |
| Apr 2, 2013 at 22:20 | answer | added | user9983 | timeline score: 10 | |
| Apr 2, 2013 at 22:13 | history | asked | EBongo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |