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Re^3: Just curious: is there a BOT that downvotes "me?"
by eyepopslikeamosquito (Archbishop) on Jul 16, 2015 at 20:29 UTC
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I never downvote anything
From Re: Meet Slang! by sundialsvc4:
Humble Monks, I just spent half of my “dog votes” today
voting-down this entire thread
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Dude with 5th most disturbing username wrote:
From Re: Meet Slang!
Ah, yeah, Baby! Logicus! He was the Gene Ray of Perl Monks.
But back on topic...
What none of you realize is that S-Dial is going for the long con. He'll own this site before it's all over. Mark my words.
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Re^3: Just curious: is there a BOT that downvotes "me?"
by GrandFather (Saint) on Jul 18, 2015 at 06:37 UTC
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Teaching to fish almost always involve demonstrating fishing skills. Often that involves catching a fish. In like fashion, teaching programming almost always involves writing some demonstration code.
Hand someone a fish, they owe you a fish. Teach someone to fish and you lose your fishing monopoly.
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Re^3: Just curious: is there a BOT that downvotes "me?"
by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Jul 18, 2015 at 05:10 UTC
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Re^3: Just curious: is there a BOT that downvotes "me?"
by Anonymous Monk on Jul 16, 2015 at 21:34 UTC
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sundialsvc4:
But I have never found it particularly helpful when a forum is just “a code-writing service.” Maybe that is merely a matter of opinion, but either you hand someone a fish or teach him how to fish. Either way, it seems unnecessarily harsh to me to penalize someone when their response and chosen means of response is not as you would choose to do it.
Maybe it’s just me; just the fact that, no matter what the response to any thread might be, I never downvote anything. Upvote, yes, frequently. Downvote, [almost] never.
You're still allowed to post, so you haven't been penalized yet
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Re^3: Just curious: is there a BOT that downvotes "me?"
by chacham (Prior) on Jul 17, 2015 at 12:23 UTC
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[The following comment is not directed at the post(er). Just a thought that occurred to me when reading it.]
I've seen people say they rarely, if ever, downvote. With no way to prove that, i wonder if there could be an optional field on a monk's home node for upvote and downvote totals, perhaps similar to ebay's user history, e.g. last month, last year, and ever. Even a rolling average of the past 30 days would be nice to see.
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Who said anything about thought-police? This could be a way to optionally provide backup for one's own claim. That is, a monk who already stated he does not downvote, can even back up that claim, optionally, and temporarily.
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This implies, and even encourages the view, that downvotes are bad, and therefore people who use them are bad.
What are you talking about? It does exactly the opposite. It gives users the ability to backup a claim that they don't downvote. Ostensibly, because they think it's bad.
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I've seen people say they rarely, if ever, downvote. With no way to prove that, i wonder if there could be an optional field on a monk's home node for upvote and downvote totals, perhaps similar to ebay's user history, e.g. last month, last year, and ever. Even a rolling average of the past 30 days would be nice to see. I just think that could be fun info to know for voters -- like XP Nodelet tell you about how many votes you have left, it could tell you how you've spent your votes today, this month, to date
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