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| Oct 22, 2015 at 6:17 | comment | added | abcd | put another way, if you show that you're good at failing people out, you're going to scare some good people away (and seem mean and unhelpful). if you show that you're good at raising people up, you're going to attract everyone (and seem awesome). for what it's worth, it is incredibly difficult to fail out of, e.g., yale. the support system there is incredible. (consider george w. bush.) in contrast, those off-shore, barely accredited med schools? they specialize in failing people (for all kinds of dumb reasons). so we see what strategy has worked in the university system. | |
| Oct 22, 2015 at 6:10 | comment | added | abcd | i know this is a year old, but i think it's worth revisiting. if a professor at my university said, "to keep up the prestige of this university, we need to do a better job of failling out the bad students," i would say, "no, that would leave all the students feeling that we don't really have their back. what we need to do a better job at is working to bring all the students up to a satisfactory level of competence/performance, by giving helpful feedback. we're educators. remember?" | |
| Oct 13, 2014 at 12:57 | comment | added | Simon Forsberg | @DavidHarkness That could be a good subject for another meta question, I sometimes wonder the same thing. | |
| Oct 12, 2014 at 11:36 | comment | added | RubberDuck | @DavidHarkness, that's a good question. I figure you could downvote it for having anything bad information in it. Or you could just not vote on it at all, up or down. Personally, I would downvote an answer containing some bad information, no matter how helpful the rest of the answer is. | |
| Oct 11, 2014 at 23:07 | comment | added | David Harkness | Downvoting answers is tougher here than on SO because a reviewer can give five pieces of great advice and then one that you disagree with. You can address that outlier in a comment, but should you hold off voting until it's addressed? What if they persist but you still vehemently disagree? Downvote? | |
| Oct 1, 2014 at 14:16 | comment | added | RubberDuck | Yes @Marc-Andre! I absolutely agree. We should remain friendly! I personally try to keep an eye on things I downvote to see if changes are made. If the post is improved, I will often reverse my vote. Obviously, it's not always possible to keep track though. | |
| Oct 1, 2014 at 13:24 | comment | added | Marc-Andre | I would add a but to this : But we should still stay friendly with new comers. I think it's a plus for us. | |
| Oct 1, 2014 at 13:19 | comment | added | Malachi | most of my downvotes get removed by deletion.... | |
| Oct 1, 2014 at 4:00 | comment | added | Jamal Mod | I agree with this. I think I have given the highest number of downvotes on this site, probably because I care about the quality that much. Graduation will only bring in more people, so possibly more crap. When we've said to increase voting on the site, that also included downvotes. Both are very important. | |
| Sep 30, 2014 at 23:01 | history | answered | RubberDuck | CC BY-SA 3.0 |