Questions tagged [down-votes]
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32 questions
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1 answer
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How to improve my question "Structure of enterprise application with interchangeable technology interface underlying in C# with DDD approach"
I think this site is about design and best proactive in software engineering as you can see in https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic and question must be good question as you can ...
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How is asking, "Is there formal terminology for storage of key value pairs?" an opinion based question?
"Formal" being the working term here. I did not ask what people "informally" thought. I asked Is there formal terminology for storage of key value pairs? And it gets closed for ...
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-2 votes
1 answer
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Negatively scored questions should be more aggressively hidden from the homepage
Right now, we have about 12 questions at -3 or lower on the homepage. This is after I closed and mod-deleted questions that are explicitly off-topic and very, very unlikely to be salvaged. It seems ...
Thomas OwensMod
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3 votes
2 answers
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Drive-by downvoters?
I gave an answer to a python question and got a downvote pretty quickly. No comment, so I asked (somewhat humorously) what caused the downvote. Then I got another downvote, and my comment was deleted. ...
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1 vote
0 answers
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What is wrong with this question
I asked following question on enquiring about the approach I should adopt while writing tests for controllers in REST api application? Within few hours it was downvoted three times but none of the ...
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1 vote
1 answer
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Question got closed citing that it requests for "customer support"
Yesterday I asked this Qn: https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/q/340510/24410 But some fellow members felt that, it belongs to below category: Why we're not customer support for [your ...
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25 votes
7 answers
695 views
Should we kindly explain the basic stuff, or rudely close the question?
Occasionally, beginner programmers ask questions here which show that they slightly misunderstood the whole subject. This leads to the questions which are both funny and difficult to read, since they ...
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1 vote
1 answer
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Why was my answer about drivers downvoted?
References: "How drivers work?" (Question) (My Answer) The OP asked about drivers: As far as I know a driver is a piece of software responsible for controlling some piece of hardware. This is the ...
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1 vote
1 answer
94 views
New question starts at -1?
I just asked a new question, https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/300694/exact-php-syntax-for-dependency-injection . When I completed it and the view page loaded, its score was ...
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2 votes
1 answer
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Does asking a question perceived as too broad warrant a down-vote / close-vote, without discussion?
We'll this recently happened to me, and now I'm out for social justification, so to speak...I'm quite an avid user of StackOverflow, so I do realize that the use of the voting mechanism had been ...
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1 vote
2 answers
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Should I downvote/close a question which I don't understand while it looks clear?
There are questions which are badly written and absolutely unclear. Those are downvoted and closed as unclear within minutes. There are questions which are clear but I personally can't understand ...
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11 votes
4 answers
539 views
Why can't we raise up questions quality?
I am a voracious StackExchange user, always I have a technical question I go to StackOverflow, also every morning I like to come here to programmer to read some more advanced questions and opinions ...
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45 votes
11 answers
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Why was my question closed or down voted?
Help! My question was closed (or down voted). Why? And what can I do about it? Downvoted Duplicate Off topic What technology to take up next Recommend a software library, tool, book, research ...
3 votes
3 answers
360 views
Why so many negative votes here?
I'm active in other Stack Exchange sites and just signed up for this one, and I'm amazed at how many questions here have negative ratings. Why don't some of you lighten up? People would not be ...
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31 votes
4 answers
1k views
Why are there so many closed, on hold, and down voted questions here?
Compared to Stack Overflow, the number of questions which are down-voted, put on hold, or closed is astounding. I think it's a sign that the criteria (and possibly usefulness) of this site is poorly ...
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