Interesting that they are not doing the extremely simple technical change that would help out with a lot of the unwelcome signaling: removing negative scores. T

Interesting that they are not doing the extremely simple technical change that would help out with a lot of the unwelcome signaling: removing negative scores. There is absolutely no value in a post being -10, it just tells the poster that 10 unkind people disliked the individual for not knowing the answer to his own question. Just let new questions sit at 0 if no one upvotes. New inexperienced users should not feel like they are being put on display for stupidity when they ask questions for fear of it being a duplicate something trivial or what else.