Timeline for Why so many non-upvoted correct answers?
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| May 16, 2013 at 19:35 | answer | added | 75064 | timeline score: 12 | |
| Aug 13, 2012 at 13:50 | comment | added | user31373 | @Doug My question was not "why many askers do not upvote answers they were given". The privilege of upvoting is not restricted to the person who asked the question. As a matter of fact, I didn't want to be given an answer nearly as much as I wanted people to upvote correct answers more often, | |
| Aug 13, 2012 at 13:45 | vote | accept | CommunityBot | ||
| Aug 13, 2012 at 13:30 | comment | added | Doug Spoonwood | Not sure I quite understand the question here, but to me, this seems sort of like asking "why do people not always show up for class on time?" or "why don't people exercise everyday?" or something along those lines. People come to the site with all sorts of different expectations and goals. They haven't signed a binding contract to engage in behavior consistent with, and promoting the community's stated goals. They don't need to do so, do they? You'd probably need to have an extremely unusual and gifted understanding of human psychology to answer your question thoroughly. | |
| Aug 9, 2012 at 18:47 | comment | added | leo | I feel that there are so many ask-and-run users. Many users ask a question, get some answers and you'll never see them here again. | |
| Aug 4, 2012 at 19:39 | comment | added | Magpie | also could be that although it is right, it might not have explained it well enough to the person asking for them to feel that the question was answered. | |
| Aug 4, 2012 at 17:10 | comment | added | J. M. ain't a mathematician | @Magpie, that is a related issue, but that is not what Leonid is asking about. | |
| Aug 4, 2012 at 10:10 | answer | added | user20266 | timeline score: 30 | |
| Aug 4, 2012 at 0:04 | comment | added | Magpie | One reason could be that lots of people answer in the comment box, which means you can't select it as answered. | |
| Aug 3, 2012 at 12:02 | answer | added | Amitesh Datta | timeline score: 20 | |
| Aug 3, 2012 at 8:10 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackMath/status/231300896817020930 | ||
| Aug 2, 2012 at 7:15 | comment | added | J. M. ain't a mathematician | FWIW: on the more specialized tags (e.g. special-functions), I always strive to thoroughly read questions and answers, and upvote them if I like the treatment. | |
| Aug 2, 2012 at 7:11 | comment | added | Jyrki Lahtonen | Congrats to @J.M. and +1 to this thread. An annoying thing, but happens easily on topics that interest only relatively few members. In particular when the answers are a bit technical and require a moderate investment of our precious time to check. I have been trying to follow this advice on the esoteric topics that interest me. | |
| Aug 1, 2012 at 23:58 | comment | added | J. M. ain't a mathematician | In any event, to speculate on the "why": a lot of the drive-by unregistered askers are not able to upvote answers because unregistered users are not allowed to vote. They are able to accept answers, but a lot of these people forget to do so. For people who can upvote, but do not do so, that's a different kettle of fish... | |
| Aug 1, 2012 at 23:49 | history | asked | user31373 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |