Following up on How Can We Encourage Civility? .
Should we downvote poorly posted quesitons/answers until modified, even though someone is a newcomer?
Following up on How Can We Encourage Civility? .
Should we downvote poorly posted quesitons/answers until modified, even though someone is a newcomer?
I'm of the opinion that it's not productive nor is it helpful to downvote questions from newbies and I'll give some of my reasons why.
Finally, I'll add that if it were entirely up to me and the platform supported it, I'd require that users comment on what's "wrong" when they downvote. I think people need to know why they're being downvoted so they can learn from it. To me, a downvote without a comment tells me very little I can learn from.