monkdiscuss
danmcb
<p>What do people downvote nodes without commenting on them?</p>
<p>It's just basic common courtesy to say not just that you dislike something, but why you do so. (It's fine to say something is good without going into details, however.)</p>
<p>(Of course, it's also a fact of life that not everyone possesses basic common courtesy ...)</p>
<p>IMO an improvement would be effected if it was not possible to downvote a node without offering a reply to it.</p>
<p>(And yes, the downvotes on thos node are fully expected. Have it your own way, children. Let's see if we can get this into "worst of the month/year/whatever".)</p>
<p>(Later : well, we made not just worst but most of the 10 or so "worst threads of the week!" I'm quite happy about that. It's also interesting to see that at least a few people in this thread do seem to get what I was trying to say. Thanks for ALL the interesting responses, positive and negative.)</p>
<p><small>2005-09-06 Retitled by [Arunbear], as per Monastery [id://341118|guidelines] <br />Original title: 'downvoting'</small></p>