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Really, downmodded for politely asking an honest question? Had anyone used both? Will I get downmodded for asking another question?

• eru 17y ago
  Kneejerk downmodding has become somewhat epidemic recently (in the last few months?). Most of the time more thoughtful users tends to correct this problem later on, though.
  • nitrogen 17y ago
    It probably helps that downvoting is only possible for newer posts (at least from my perspective), while upvoting is always possible.
    • eru 17y ago
      I usually compare on what I think a comment is worth and what it has at the moment, and then vote to make the `is' closer to the `should'. At least for upvotes. In generally I only downvote stuff that lowers the quality of discussion. It would be interesting if we had a voting system, that worked a bit like eBay's `bidding agents'. I.e. a system where you vote by setting a target score, and the system casts an up- and downvote as necessary. Of course we would need those base-votes to be recastable (but only automatically). The current system is a special case of this, where the target score is either plus infinity or minus infinity, and you can't change the target score once set. P.S. Please forgive my off-topic ranting in this discussion about K&R.