> The biggest problem is downvoting. > Downvoting is toxic. I disagree. Ignoring SO's dubious classifications of what's on/off-topic. The last couple questi

> The biggest problem is downvoting. > Downvoting is toxic. I disagree. Ignoring SO's dubious classifications of what's on/off-topic. The last couple questions I've posted have been shit-shows of off-topic comments and answers. If you ask a hard question, a lot of people seem to only want to uselessly question what you're doing then answer a different, easier question. Those are totally worthless, and force me to waste a lot of time writing really defensive questions that try to nip the derails in the bud. Honestly, SO should have some feature where the asker can just delete responses as off-topic. > A better change would have been to make any downvote COST 10 points. Or at least 1 point or 2. IIRC, it already costs 1 karma point to downvote an answer. I would guess it's the same for a question.