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Comments to explain downvotes are nice, and should perhaps be encouraged, but they certainly shouldn't be mandatory.
by TRiG_Ireland 3y ago
Comments to explain downvotes are nice, and should perhaps be encouraged, but they certainly shouldn't be mandatory.
- pvg 3y agoThey are explicitly discouraged in the guidelines this thread is about.
- yjftsjthsd-h 3y agoCommenting about downvotes themselves is discouraged. Commenting on the reasons why somebody was downvoted is a separate matter
- pvg 3y agoNo it's not. It's the whole meta-discussion about voting in general. And, it doesn't say it explicitly, but almost all meta-discussion itself. You can find both of these explained in the moderator commentary over the years.
- dragonwriter 3y ago> Comments to explain downvotes are nice Downvotes are for material that does not support productive discussion, if it is productive to discuss a comment (even on a meta level like “why it is a bad comment”?), then downvoting is inappropriate.