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Offtopic, request to viewers: Please don't downvote without explaining why, responding, etc. I'm not asking you to debate the OP which you desire to downvote,
by fizzbatter 11y ago
Offtopic, request to viewers:
Please don't downvote without explaining why, responding, etc. I'm not asking you to debate the OP which you desire to downvote, but to simply explain why. Feel free to preface it with "I'm not going to debate you, or even reply to you, but here is why i downvoted you:"
My reason for wishing this is, in areas that another viewer (myself, in this example) is unfamiliar with the topic at hand (law, lawyers, and etc) - a downvote can often be confusing. Is what the OP said non-factual? Are they bending the truth? Or is it simply a hot topic?
Anyway, i could go on, but i'll likely end up wandering. Thanks for reading.
- jsprogrammer 11y agoI think this is something that Digg got right (at some point, I believe). You had to submit some reason why you were burying a post. I would perhaps go farther and require the user to provide a free-text answer of a minimum character/word length to register a downvote.
- odonnellryan 11y agoYou actually seem to be getting downvoted. I don't know what to call that...
- jsprogrammer 11y agoSome classification of irony, I'm sure.
- PeterWhittaker 11y agoThis is why I almost always automatically upvote posts that were downvoted away....