Timeline for Protect anonymity of 'no comment' down voters - while allowing other users to down vote them
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| Aug 29, 2017 at 13:56 | comment | added | Ramhound | Imagine it from our perspective. If you have kids you might understand this comparison. Your question in it's original revision, was basically that of your child coming to you extremely upset, and they describe what happen but you cannot understand what actually happened because they are crying and sobbing. Now I am not saying you were a literal child, I am saying because you were venting, you failed to describe the problem in a way where somebody could understand what your problem was. | |
| Aug 29, 2017 at 13:54 | comment | added | Ramhound | @CBruce - You need to be that the question body isn't the place to vent your frustrations? I mean clearly you did, but you wondered the reason people didn't indicate that was the reason, it is because we believed you wouldn't be receptive of the feedback. The fact you were receptive, and were at least willing to listen to the feedback is a positive thing, but we should have been more worried about getting more information from you not telling you that we are not the place to vent your frustrations. | |
| Aug 29, 2017 at 4:39 | comment | added | Shog9 | I have a question with 343 upvotes and 7 downvotes, @CBruce. In nearly 9 years, I've never gotten one useful bit of criticism on it. I sure as hell don't need 7 "down vote without comment" comments on it. Lament a lack of feedback all you want, I still don't see how a machine screaming at you improves that one bit. | |
| Aug 29, 2017 at 3:59 | comment | added | CBruce | I am really confused - or else I've really confused you. If my question gets down voted with no comment - I have no idea whether I need to fix it, how to fix it, or whether I'm supposed to delete it. I would welcome any direction that anyone cared to provide. A down vote on my question, with no explanation, is useless to me... and doesn't really help the community. With some guidance - a user might be able to turn their bad question into something useful. Why would I care if there were 3 "@anonymous" comments against my question if other useful comments allowed me to fix it? | |
| Aug 29, 2017 at 3:33 | comment | added | Shog9 | And 6 years later, when your post is at +30...? | |
| Aug 29, 2017 at 3:32 | comment | added | CBruce | I'm not quite sure what you mean @Shog9. Today, if someone down votes my question and doesn't leave a comment, then I am sitting there with down votes and no comments. With my proposal, that part wouldn't really change - except I would have three down votes and three anonymous comments that anyone (other than myself) could actively disagree with by adding their own comment and down voting the anonymous comments. I felt that would be an incentive for users to provide useful comments to go along with their down votes of a question. | |
| Aug 29, 2017 at 3:22 | comment | added | Shog9 | How would you feel if there was such a comment on one of your posts, @CBruce? What if there were two, or three? | |
| Aug 29, 2017 at 3:18 | comment | added | CBruce | Shog9, please understand... I definitely do not want to put a visible black mark on a user. The auto comment I proposed was literal. It would be, "down vote with no explanation - @anonymous". There would be no actual userid seen by anyone. The system would track the user in the background and apply points as necessary. I sought to guarantee anonymity. There are a lot of "down vote without comment" threads on Meta - but they are all personal and without realistic solutions. I merely tried to provide a workable solution. | |
| Aug 28, 2017 at 23:07 | history | answered | Shog9 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |