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There might have been reasons. But then when you ask for them in the comments section, people would just answer "you don't need to provide a reason to downvote"
by albertzeyer 8y ago
There might have been reasons. But then when you ask for them in the comments section, people would just answer "you don't need to provide a reason to downvote". So actually you never learn.
The other issue is, even when the reason is given, sometimes you would not agree with that. E.g. sometimes people claim it's a duplicate, although they are not deep enough into the topic to really tell, and then the question gets closed. Or people claim is subjective, while in fact objective answers are possible. Or many other things.
- everfree 8y agoDo people really comment this? I've never seen anyone comment anything along the lines of "you don't need to provide a reason to downvote" on a question they are downvoting. I would probably call them out and/or flag a mod if I saw it. Is this a very recent thing? That being said, I agree that Stack Overflow has a duplicate issue.
- albertzeyer 8y agoYes, I have seen that a few times. E.g. some own question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9945648/ https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9945648/ Or another one, which recovered now: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9946322 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9946322 (Initially votes were all negative, but over time more and more positive votes came.)