Timeline for Are these downvotes merited?
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| Jun 15, 2020 at 8:10 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Feb 4, 2019 at 0:15 | comment | added | Matt Lacey Mod | @DerekF Best of luck! Sounds like a good plan :) | |
| Jan 25, 2019 at 19:41 | comment | added | battery.cord | That mentorship project got me wondering if we could have a chat room on sf.se to do something similar. Sadly, the rooms expire, and you cant directly link to them in the UI. Theres only one chat link, and its tucked into the site switcher. Would absolutely put my name in for mentorship. Let us know once that post is up - we can provide support on the other meta. salesforce.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2745/… | |
| Jan 25, 2019 at 18:07 | comment | added | Derek F | @MattLacey (and others that I can't additionally @mention...) I'm gathering information to make a post over in SO's meta, and came across the mentorship project, which seems interesting if it'd ever land on the larger SE network. At any rate, I'll probably spend several days composing this feature request (maybe I'll start a new question here in meta to act as a draft). Wish me luck, and probably a flame-retardant vest of some sort. | |
| Jan 25, 2019 at 15:35 | comment | added | David Reed | We always say that comments are temporary (he says, writing a comment). If an answer is not corrected and improved in response to our commentary, and is not deleted, one or more downvotes from the community is a "curation" act that signals to future visitors that we don't think that's the right way for them to solve this question. I also strongly share @battery.cord's sense that we need a better way to reward and recognize improvement in response to votes and comments. | |
| Jan 25, 2019 at 15:34 | comment | added | David Reed | I agree with the idea that we should work to guide new users to participate productively, and be kind in doing so. But I also want to push back just a bit on the idea that not receiving upvotes is enough of a response to low-quality or inaccurate contributions. Stack Exchange is a knowledge base that we, as a community, curate. I think there is an important place for downvotes as a way of saying not to the contributor but to all future visitors "This is not accurate, this is not good practice, this is not a legitimate alternative to other answers". | |
| Jan 25, 2019 at 14:46 | comment | added | battery.cord | I've posted about this before on this stack - whenever a question I voted to close, or a answer I downvoted or flagged is edited, I want to know. I want to review that content again. I usually only interact with a post once - but they can edit it as much as they want. Most flags & votes are "fire and forget", which helps remove content from the site, but doesnt help the user understand how to improve their content, or create more "quality" content. Imo this is where a lot of users fill the gap via commenting. | |
| Jan 25, 2019 at 14:42 | comment | added | battery.cord | Honestly, a part of me assumed the user wasn't acting in good faith. I see a lot of "new" accounts posting low quality answers on old content frequently. I did also flag the post "vlq" - however I am unable to find the results of the flag in my history. Personally I tend to run a little "hot" & try to avoid arguing in the comments under a post over content. Ill be re-evaluating my personal biases & looking more towards what I can improve, instead of what moderation actions I can take in the future. | |
| Jan 25, 2019 at 1:47 | comment | added | Matt Lacey Mod | I pretty much agree with your Takeaway here. I feel for new users, simply getting no upvotes conveys the communities intent well enough, downvoting them on their first ever contribution with little help offered is likely to just turn them away for good. | |
| Jan 25, 2019 at 1:46 | comment | added | Matt Lacey Mod | "Maybe we can petition the StackOverflow staff to add a feature to notify downvoters if an edit has been made." This would be a really great feature. | |
| Jan 24, 2019 at 20:03 | history | answered | Derek F | CC BY-SA 4.0 |