Timeline for How to prevent malicious downvoting?
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| Nov 7, 2018 at 18:42 | comment | added | TheSimpliFire | This is now happening to Math Challenges. I have made a post about it here. | |
| Jan 5, 2018 at 17:06 | comment | added | Thobias Cerqueira | I totally agree with Carl. Downvoting doesn't help or encourage people to try harder. Rather penalizes if you are not according to group standards (+/-ok) or one own standards (not ok). If we instead of penalizing, warned both the community and writer of posting that this person needs to re-evaluate their research would be much more beneficial to both the person who contributes for the stack overflow and individuals who write them. Maybe some sort of color sign system? Please don't use red, basic social psychology ok. Incentive is far more effective than transforming a mistake into a penalty. | |
| May 3, 2017 at 8:40 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Sep 23, 2016 at 19:05 | comment | added | Carl | My experience with downvoting has been negative. Frankly, when I am in the middle of editing something, downvoting can erase my work before I complete it. Try writing something complicated for ten hours just to have someone thinking with their mouths downvote on your work in progress. One of my -3's is now a +6, and I had to copy it and repost it before the squabbling crowd of backseat pundits destroyed what they didn't have the patience for. Downvoting is broken, do something different with it, please. | |
| Sep 22, 2016 at 18:24 | comment | added | Carl | Downvoting is overrated. Get rid of it. Comments work better and positive reinforcement works on humans, negative reinforcement is most often ineffectual because of confirmation bias. That is, unless you happen to be the type of person who is skeptical of everything you ever thought, were ever taught, told or read, you will not be able to get bogus ideas out of your head just by thinking about them. The type of thinking that removes flat earth theories is some variant of scientific method wherein we systematically attempt to disprove ideas. | |
| Sep 22, 2016 at 18:23 | comment | added | Carl | I find it interesting that I essentially said the same thing as point 2 above, and that it was downvoted 3 times and removed. | |
| Sep 21, 2016 at 23:22 | answer | added | Carl | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 22, 2016 at 20:46 | comment | added | John Militer | There is already a requirement that you must have 150 reputation to downvote. To stop this from happening, flag it for moderator attention and in the flag say that you think someone is indiscriminately downvoting every example question. | |
| Dec 25, 2014 at 11:30 | comment | added | Peter Kämpf | You loose one reputation point for every downvote. A sensible daily limit could help to reduce abuse, but down voting should still be easy to flag bad answers. | |
| Feb 12, 2013 at 16:11 | comment | added | Neal Kruis | I've noticed this happening on several Science related sites. | |
| Feb 9, 2013 at 5:03 | comment | added | yuritsuki | Which site proposal are you referring to? | |
| Feb 8, 2013 at 16:15 | history | asked | Neal Kruis | CC BY-SA 3.0 |