Timeline for Why are people still mass upvoting non-answers?
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| Jun 16, 2020 at 10:01 | history | edited | CommunityBot | Commonmark migration | |
| Apr 12, 2017 at 7:31 | history | edited | CommunityBot | replaced http://programmers.stackexchange.com/ with https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/ | |
| Aug 26, 2011 at 19:29 | comment | added | user29776 | @aaronaught You are either the worlds biggest hamster smuggler or a rabbit. | |
| Aug 26, 2011 at 19:26 | comment | added | Aaronaught | @kekekela: Really? You read them all in 6 minutes? I'm impressed. You're either the world's fastest reader or the world's biggest liar. | |
| Aug 26, 2011 at 19:25 | comment | added | user29776 | @aaronaught Read those, they don't back up your claim but you totally zinged me with the breathing heavily thing while reading reddit thing!!! | |
| Aug 26, 2011 at 19:19 | comment | added | Aaronaught | @kekekela: I shouldn't even dignify that with answer, but for starters, read the blog and the FAQ, and if you're still confused, please don't hesitate to sit around eating cold pizza while breathing heavily and snickering at jokes and rants on reddit, hackernews and /. until you feel you have a better understanding of the situation. | |
| Aug 26, 2011 at 18:20 | comment | added | user29776 | "Stack Exchange Q&A was very deliberately designed by and for people who wanted to take the internet more seriously" --- Source? | |
| Aug 26, 2011 at 17:52 | comment | added | Aaronaught | @kekekela: Thanks once again for your "insight". Stack Exchange Q&A was very deliberately designed by and for people who wanted to take the internet more seriously. If you don't understand that, you are most definitely in the wrong place. | |
| Aug 26, 2011 at 17:27 | comment | added | user29776 | hey guys, let's take the internet really seriously today | |
| Aug 13, 2011 at 1:18 | answer | added | Ando | timeline score: -3 | |
| Jun 29, 2011 at 6:08 | answer | added | Nicol Bolas | timeline score: 2 | |
| Apr 23, 2011 at 13:40 | answer | added | JeffO | timeline score: -2 | |
| Apr 18, 2011 at 19:15 | comment | added | P.Brian.Mackey | On the same note, people need to stop upvoting answers to non-questions. E.G. Anything that does not meet the criteria in the FAQ. | |
| Apr 17, 2011 at 0:02 | comment | added | MikeSchinkel | @Aaronaught - Fair points. | |
| Apr 16, 2011 at 23:39 | comment | added | Aaronaught | @Mike: No, once again, this issue is about answers that don't answer the question. People have always been free and encouraged to write whatever they want in comments as long as it's reasonably on-topic, and an innocent and common disclaimer ("this isn't a good idea, but if you must, then here's how") is very easily escalated in a comment thread with a hostile response. Speaking of off-topic, would you mind not airing your dirty laundry in totally unrelated questions/threads? | |
| Apr 16, 2011 at 23:28 | answer | added | Mark Booth | timeline score: 2 | |
| Apr 16, 2011 at 23:13 | comment | added | MikeSchinkel | @Aaronaught - You also admonished in a comment on this answer which together I take for (at best) ironic. | |
| Apr 16, 2011 at 21:56 | comment | added | Aaronaught | @Mike: My admonition there was a single comment prefixing the answer, which has always been acceptable on every SE. The bulk of the answer was actually a direct answer to the question. So no, not particularly ironic as far as I'm concerned. | |
| Apr 16, 2011 at 20:41 | comment | added | MikeSchinkel | @Aaronaught - I agree with your post here, and up-voted it. Funny though, I feel the same happened on a question I asked recently where you started your answer with a non-tactful admonition and one of the top-voted answers was an attack on my premise. Ironic, or something else? (That said, I'm coming to believe this site should be given a new URL: bikeshed.stackexchange.com) | |
| Apr 15, 2011 at 19:35 | answer | added | M.Sameer | timeline score: 2 | |
| Apr 14, 2011 at 16:57 | answer | added | Joel Etherton | timeline score: 2 | |
| Apr 13, 2011 at 6:49 | answer | added | GrandmasterB | timeline score: -1 | |
| Apr 12, 2011 at 23:54 | comment | added | jmq | @Aaronaught, what you have described is basically the definition of a question that is too localized. It's considered off topic for the forum. I think that question is off topic and silly, but I'm not a moderator so my opinion doesn't really count (I can only vote it down, which I went back and did). JMHO. | |
| Apr 12, 2011 at 23:07 | comment | added | Aaronaught | @jmq: I disagree that it was a stupid question. I don't fancy the idea myself, but try to see it from all perspectives; if you really want to learn about French culture then the best way to do that is to work there for a short while and really live the life, not hang around a bunch of tourist spots. Whether a week is enough time to do that, or if any company would allow it, or if it's even legal - well, that was precisely the topic of the question. We shouldn't be judging people, we should be answering their questions no matter how stupid we think they are (or at least ignoring them). | |
| Apr 12, 2011 at 20:58 | comment | added | jmq | I'm surprised that question wasn't closed for being too localized, but what do I know... How many people are really going to go on a vacation and then somehow miraculously get a 7 day job for fun. Yeah... sure. EDIT: I didn't vote on the question either way, but maybe I should have down voted it (but the really stupid questions I tend to just ignore, so maybe that is wrong). | |
| Apr 12, 2011 at 5:11 | answer | added | Jeff AtwoodStaffMod | timeline score: 4 | |
| Apr 12, 2011 at 4:41 | comment | added | Aditya P | Peer Pressure | |
| Apr 12, 2011 at 3:38 | answer | added | jmort253 | timeline score: 11 | |
| Apr 11, 2011 at 23:14 | answer | added | Nicole | timeline score: 4 | |
| Apr 11, 2011 at 22:10 | answer | added | Adam LearStaffMod | timeline score: 9 | |
| Apr 11, 2011 at 18:04 | answer | added | Steven Evers | timeline score: 1 | |
| Apr 11, 2011 at 18:00 | comment | added | Aaronaught | @Walter: The question was migrated, but the answer being discussed got almost all of its upvotes here (and was probably posted here). | |
| Apr 11, 2011 at 17:54 | comment | added | Walter | I agree that there's a lot of up-voting non-answers and dislike it as well. The only thing I'll add to your point is that this question was migrated from SO and likely got most of its up votes from there. | |
| Apr 11, 2011 at 16:58 | history | asked | Aaronaught | CC BY-SA 3.0 |