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>> A down-vote! > Your first I gather :) ? <grin> You know me better than that. I just always find it frustrating when I submit something or say something t
by RiderOfGiraffes 16y ago
>> A down-vote!
> Your first I gather :) ?
<grin> You know me better than that.
I just always find it frustrating when I submit something or say something that I genuinely believe adds value to the site, and then it gets down-voted with no explanation. A down-vote will make me re-evaluate the information content, and sometimes I will, upon reflection, delete a comment. If it was content-less then I'll move on, but if I thought there was content, I'll try to rephrase and be clearer and more positive.
But when I think a comment has value and yet it gets a down-vote with no explanation, I find that frustrating.
It happens, I know, and it's no big deal, but I value the opportunity to learn.
> Fixed.
Thanks, although it doesn't explain why someone thought it was worth the down-vote in the first place. <fx: sigh> Never mind, moving on ...
- jacquesm 16y agoI know. One thing you can do to combat this is to revisit discussions after they've died down and check out the negative comments, see if there were any 'drive-by's' that could do with a re-balancing of the force.
- RiderOfGiraffes 16y agoOne side-effect of the duplicate-detection I do is that I re-read old discussions. That lets me up-vote older comments that I think deserve it. I've found some gems like that, which in part is why I continue the dup-detector activity "by hand" (in the main). And thanks for the up-vote.