Timeline for Is habitual down voting considered okay?
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| Aug 6, 2021 at 0:50 | comment | added | Martin - マーチン Mod | And if you want a pop-up, asking the user to confirm they have read the 'rules', then please ask yourself whether you have accepted license agreements and terms of service that you have not read. This would only lead to more frustration, and no improvement. This discussion is not new at all. There is plenty of it on the main meta. I encourage you to look for it. And if you then still think this is a good idea, you need to take the discussion there again. At our end there is nothing we can do to change this situation. @M.Farooq | |
| Aug 6, 2021 at 0:50 | comment | added | ACR | I agree, overall it is a pretty useful site. | |
| Aug 6, 2021 at 0:44 | comment | added | Martin - マーチン Mod | @M.Farooq The general idea of Stack Exchange is to have the lowest possible energy barrier. That is also why you can still ignore most of the notices that are supposed to help you, including the tour, and the new question interface. Except for very few things (like tagging here with chemistry) you can and should be able to post your question. You can also do that entirely anonymous, which is a feat not many places provide; and we're still maintaining a good level of quality with minimum rudeness, spam and other 'internet stuff'. | |
| Aug 6, 2021 at 0:32 | comment | added | ACR | What about clarifying the rules for new users? For example, if a new first time user is about to ask a question a pop-up should can clarify that SE Chem Q&A will not entertain homework questions without any effort, or other similar items like that. They should not be able to post unless they have read it. Just a suggestion. I am not a ResearchGate fan either. They just have flag, or upvote option and they removed the anonymous downvote because it was doing no service. And what is the purpose of votes anyway? Up or down, what was the purpose to begin with? | |
| Aug 5, 2021 at 23:37 | comment | added | Martin - マーチン Mod | @M.Farooq If I missed your point, then you probably missed mine. I would have down voted the examples, if I'd seen them. I do not think they are appropriate for this site. This shows how different our views are, and probably also how different our understanding of this site is. And since there are plenty of opinions between us, the voting system is a somewhat democratic tool to equalise the playing field. And yes, proper literature is not that to 15 year olds, but these hardly ever take university level classes. (Votes on meta usually signify agreement or disagreement; no joke at all.) | |
| Aug 1, 2021 at 23:51 | comment | added | ACR | Someone told me an interesting approach while setting a exam paper. He used to ask himself, "Could I solve this question if I were in this class?" If the answer is no, this question is not perhaps not justified. Yes, we are adults, and most of them are yound /old PhDs. Now we think that they can search this place or that place. The point is could we, if we were 15 year old, search the answers? Proper literature search in chemistry is not taught until one reaches the last years of undergraduate or fresh PhD classes. | |
| Aug 1, 2021 at 23:47 | comment | added | ACR | Martin, you missed my point. I also down vote when the question is very bad! What if someone is habitually doing it? And joke of the century is that someone down voted this post too :-) I don't care about down votes, the only point is that one should not shoo away new users, especially if they begging that they are new to science. If anonymous down voting makes anyone happy, let it be that way. At least I contributed to their happiness. | |
| Aug 1, 2021 at 23:30 | history | answered | Martin - マーチンMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |