Re: Too much positive votes on questions (Seekers of Perl Wisdom)

[allolex]

I upvoted this node and saw that it had -8 rep at the time of my upvote. The question is valid, though---and give the guy a break, he's a 16 y.o. student, after all. An intelligent question doesn't deserve to be put into a trench and covered up.

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Allolex

[belg4mit]

On the internet nobody knows you're a 53 year-old balding virgin (oops). The age of the interrogator is irrelevant.

Is it so intelligent a question? As others have pointed out, many of the facts and assumptions in this node are incorrect.

Besides, he clearly would not condone his node having a +50 reputation.

Other things to consider (mostly improbable, but nonetheless worth mentioning)

• Fellow monks may have been afraid to ask the question, and were thankful somebody did
• Other users are XP whores and trying to use up their votes
• A monk may upvote a (update: single) reply, and then consider themselves done with the thread.
• A monk may read the thread early on, and then consider themselves done with the thread; ignoring subsequent replies

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I'm not belgian but I play one on TV.

[allolex]

I pretty much agree with the points you listed at the bottom, but...

I tend to look at people's home nodes to get an idea of who they are when a question seems a bit strange to me. And age, hence wisdom (one would hope), is not irrelevant; it's just often an unknown. I agree with you that many of the assumptions he made are incorrect, but that does not merit being buried because certain people enjoy the irony of downvoting someone because of their complaints/observations about too many upvotes.

For me, except in rarer cases such as repeated RTFM questions or ignoring previous answers, questions should be >= 0.

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Allolex