Timeline for Quick downvoting of ill-formatted questions by new users
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| May 4, 2012 at 22:42 | history | edited | Bill Dubuque | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 674 characters in body |
| May 4, 2012 at 21:53 | history | edited | Bill Dubuque | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 1 characters in body |
| May 4, 2012 at 21:36 | comment | added | Bill Dubuque | @Alex 3. I keep an eye out for well-known errors, conceptual misunderstandings, etc, so that I can help students avoid these problems. But, conversely, I don't have time to actively seek out good answers, whether for learning or voting purposes. Thus, due to this, I may tend to see more bad than good answers. Probably those who are here also to learn (vs. only to teach) do seek out good answers too. Thus they will have a very different up/down vote ratio. There may well be other factors too. But that's my best guess after a few minutes of contemplating the matter. | |
| May 4, 2012 at 21:36 | comment | added | Bill Dubuque | @Alex Re: up/down vote count, ratios: There are front-page users with 3 to 4 times more downvotes than I, and some with fewer upvotes. The reason that my ratio is different probably stems from various factors. 1. Said different thread selection criteria. 2. Many of my downvotes were in the volatile early days of the site when there were some prolific misbehaving users. (continued below) | |
| May 4, 2012 at 21:36 | comment | added | Bill Dubuque | @Alex My primary goal here is to teach. In order to optimize my limited time, I generally read only those threads whose title hints that there is a strong chance for me to teach. So, generally, the only answers I see are the few which might have already appeared in such threads. I presume that others browse much wider classes of threads, so they have many more opportunities to vote. But, alas, if I did that I would lose precious time available to teach. That's not a compromise I wish to make. | |
| May 4, 2012 at 7:43 | comment | added | Alex Becker | If you don't mind me asking, what are your general standards for voting? I've noticed that your voting profile is quite different from most users, and you're the only high-rep user I'm aware of who has given more downvotes than upvotes. | |
| May 3, 2012 at 18:34 | history | answered | Bill Dubuque | CC BY-SA 3.0 |