Timeline for Question and suggestion on Votes and Rep
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| Sep 23, 2012 at 15:24 | vote | accept | Carl B | ||
| Sep 17, 2012 at 5:30 | comment | added | slhck Mod | In that case, yes, you could vote on Ubuntu questions even if you know Windows much better – but I'm sure a lot of people don't because they have no clue about that topic. Even though they're encouraged to vote. I agree with you that people should vote more, but of course not excessively, because that would undermine the value of votes altogether. | |
| Sep 16, 2012 at 21:23 | comment | added | Carl B | I feel you are correct that the voting is highly personal. After reading some of the stuff here on Meta, 13000+ unansweres question and such that encourage votes on the QUESTIONs to bring them forward a bit and so on. I can truly appreciate not voting on Answers if one is not sure, or can't confirm, but the questions cetrainly wouldn't put a voter in personal bad graces if they weren't sure of all the details, right? So you could upvote a Umbantu question even if your comfort was Windows. | |
| Sep 16, 2012 at 21:04 | comment | added | slhck Mod | I mean, the whole voting thing is highly personal. For example, I'd feel "guilty" for upvoting a wrong answer for lack of better knowledge on my side when voting. Of course Stack Exchange is trying to get people to vote more, but I believe there are enough cases where posts don't warrant a vote at all — this is also an indicator of quality, right? So, there will always be a limit to that. | |
| Sep 16, 2012 at 21:00 | comment | added | slhck Mod | It depends on how people see voting on questions. It's definitely not "wasting" — otherwise more people would use up their 40 votes. Questions could be voted on just for being popular (and thus useful, +1), but many popular questions are rather mediocre, since they probably don't show much research effort, and attract mostly visitors with the same problem, who can't vote. Often enough, I see questions that surely don't deserve a downvote, but aren't particularly good either. I simply won't vote on them. I believe this is what many others think too, but I could be wrong. | |
| Sep 16, 2012 at 20:35 | comment | added | Carl B | reviewing your points and then going back an looking around on SU, I guess I am still wondering why people don't vote. There was a question with some 13K views (as noted in a question here in meta about "what is kviews"), no votes on the question. Are votes that exclusive and valuble that users don't want to "waste" them? If the question is not technicly written than it shall receive no vote? For all users here I am sure a up rep do to a vote feels pretty good. | |
| Sep 15, 2012 at 13:10 | comment | added | Carl B | Great points and I appreciate the reply. | |
| Sep 15, 2012 at 7:27 | history | answered | slhckMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |