Timeline for Programmers Stack Exchange question downvoting, what to do?
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| Sep 10, 2012 at 19:08 | comment | added | Roc Martí | There's absolutely nothing constructive in there. Please stop, this is plain noise. | |
| Sep 10, 2012 at 19:07 | comment | added | Roc Martí | Nothing constructive about your suggestions, you start by plugging your long forgotten and largely irrelevant proposal, then move on to blantantly call out others (even if I agreed with you that their behavior is problematic, it still wouldn't be a significant part of the "problem"), then you move on to a counterproductive suggestion (auto comments? Right, that's what's going to help people, canned messages), then again you come back to people "bragging about downvotes" (Oh, sorry, your other point was about "promoting" not "bragging") and lastly you suggest something that is unfeasible. | |
| Sep 10, 2012 at 18:43 | comment | added | Rachel | @RocMartí I'm not entirely sure what you're saying, but I'm sorry if I wasn't clear in what I wrote and that lead you to misunderstand it. I wrote what my point of view was as a long-term P.SE user for the reason for the large number of downvotes on P.SE, and tried to offer some constructive suggestions for helping to reduce the number of downvotes. I'm really not sure where you're coming up with "drones" or "idiots" from, and I don't think I said anything against any particular user, only their actions. | |
| Sep 10, 2012 at 18:34 | comment | added | Roc Martí | -1 for a vitriolic, passive aggressive polemic, that isn't useful to anyone. | |
| Sep 10, 2012 at 18:33 | comment | added | Roc Martí | @gnat, who has also edited and improved an insane amount of posts, silently went on to fix this one as well, although he's also one of the guys you specifically point out to as "bragging about their downvote record". You are also a "high rep user of the site, and people will look up to you and try to follow your example", but looking at your profile I see that you are mainly interested in complaining and plugging your proposals, rather than actually helping people. Remember, all your comments and edits are public... | |
| Sep 10, 2012 at 18:30 | comment | added | Roc Martí | I'm looking at the people you blatantly call out (with direct links, and yet pretend to speak about "some people", passive aggressive much?), and I don't see them as either "leaders of zombies" or as doing anything wrong. The one guy has edited and fixed an impressive amount of questions, and is always around and helping noobs, the other one is also one of the most helpful commenters around and he called himself out on Meta, possibly because he already knew what he did wasn't so wrong. | |
| Sep 10, 2012 at 18:28 | comment | added | Roc Martí | I am a new user, but I'm neither a drone nor an idiot. There might be some drones and idiots out there who "follow leaders" instead of using their brain, but I don't think it's a significant problem or we can blame the "leaders" for it. | |
| Sep 10, 2012 at 16:44 | history | edited | gnat | CC BY-SA 3.0 | minor typo correction |
| Sep 10, 2012 at 16:39 | history | answered | Rachel | CC BY-SA 3.0 |