Alain_Reve

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by Alain_Reve 4y ago
It didn't happen only once and I tend to delete downvoted or closed questions. There's one I'm currently trying to get re-opened: https://puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/117556/reasonin... I us
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by Alain_Reve 4y ago
Long live HN! Here nobody rushed in to say "SO is not a forum, it's a Q&A site". Ooops, I've just said it! Help, I got contaminated! Seriously, I've seen what you mention happening with ubuntu forum (now mostly
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by Alain_Reve 4y ago
Thank for for making me laugh. What do you mean, "their job"? Are people actually getting paid to downvote?
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by Alain_Reve 4y ago
"Be sure to upvote good posts to encourage new users." This guideline should definitely receive more attention.
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by Alain_Reve 4y ago
Oh, having a question closed as a duplicate is often justified, at least in my case. Last time it happened to me, it was because I used "style sheet" as a search word instead of "CSS". If you can't be bothered searc
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by Alain_Reve 4y ago
That's another problem and I admit is is annoying. You can get asked for information you don't know how to obtain and so you spend time searching how to get that info and (at least in my case) quite often searching what this info
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Are there some serial downvoters on Stack Overflow?
19 points by Alain_Reve 4y ago|23 comments
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by Alain_Reve 4y ago
Because people who distribute funding don't read your papers - they wouldn't understand them -, don't look up any supplementary material, they just count how many papers you've published.