Timeline for I think SU has a newbie-biting problem
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| Jan 13, 2021 at 20:05 | comment | added | John Neuhaus | I agree that this ratio is an actively unhelpful stat. What's being downvoted and how are hugely important. By stats alone, @Ramhound could just as easily be an absolute angel, delivering patient feedback and attempting to coach every one of those into something valuable. Conversely someone with a positive ratio could be vindictively targeting specific users. | |
| Jan 13, 2021 at 14:03 | comment | added | Ramhound | Nobody every complains about the user who only upvotes contributions, I have even seen spam upvoted, my point is the official stance is that upvoting and downvoting are equally important. If you want to say I should explain all my votes more often, then I won’t object to that criticism, but to say anything about my ratio is ridiculous since the raw statistics are flawed. | |
| Jan 13, 2021 at 8:30 | comment | added | Kamil Maciorowski | Why should any user's "many more downvotes than upvotes" or the ratio be an issue? If @Ramhound additionally upvoted 50k good posts, would it make his downvotes more acceptable? Does a newbie whose post was downvoted care how many other people's posts are upvoted? If you think some users vote down too much, say exactly this. But if they review often and flag for deletion, it's natural they see more bad posts than the rest of us. It may be some users are biased in thinking the average quality of a post is relatively high, because really bad posts are removed thanks to users like Ramhound. | |
| Jan 11, 2021 at 22:54 | comment | added | ispiro | I'm surprised this answer has a net positive score. And I upvoted it. :) And speaking of the active voters... :) Also +1 @pigeonburger . | |
| Jan 11, 2021 at 18:37 | comment | added | Ramhound | @FranckDernoncourt - I routinely downvote commentary submitted as an answer. I would estimate about 75% of the daily reviews I perform is commentary submitted as an answer. | |
| Jan 11, 2021 at 17:24 | comment | added | Franck Dernoncourt | @gronostaj thanks for sharing, very interesting! Rambound's upvote:downvote ratio is the lowest. | |
| Jan 11, 2021 at 10:21 | comment | added | gronostaj | Improved query with % shares (eg. how much a user contributes to all up/downvotes in the list) | |
| Jan 11, 2021 at 10:06 | comment | added | gronostaj | Upvote/downvote ratios for users with at least 10k rep and 100 total votes. | |
| Jan 10, 2021 at 18:08 | comment | added | Ramhound | The statistics displayed on that page doesn’t take into account deleted contributions. So in my eyes the ratio of upvotes to downvotes is garbage, since the majority of the contributions I downvote, actually get deleted. I upvote high quality contributions plenty. | |
| Jan 9, 2021 at 0:05 | comment | added | Braiam | No Franck, it's exactly the same. If I downvote your post and you delete it, it would be still counted. | |
| Jan 9, 2021 at 0:03 | comment | added | Braiam | @gronostaj go to the user profile, in activity. BTW, these include votes on deleted posts. | |
| Jan 8, 2021 at 18:18 | history | edited | Franck Dernoncourt | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 8, 2021 at 18:15 | comment | added | gronostaj | How can I see user's upvote/downvote distribution on that page? | |
| Jan 8, 2021 at 7:39 | comment | added | pigeonburger | I agree 100%. I don't think this is just on SU though (although in my experience it's a lot worse here compared to anywhere else). This applies to a huge amount of the whole network, and instead of addressing it, they just click 'downvote' on any sort of question/answer like this. | |
| Jan 8, 2021 at 5:15 | history | answered | Franck Dernoncourt | CC BY-SA 4.0 |