I'd be interested to know why someone thought a node was -- worthy.

A non-significant percentage of the votes I cast are --. There are several reasons I -- a post:

• Off topic posts.
• Postings that are badly phrased, badly formatted, unclear or ambigious.
• Questions that ask to be spoon-fed, or contains hundreds of lines of code and a "it doesn't work".
• FAQs, or questions whose answers could be found easily in the documentation.
• Answers that are wrong.
• Replies that don't answer the question.
• Followup questions of the form "that answers the question, but my real problem is..."
• Posts with misleading subjects.
• Opinions that are presented as facts.
• Posts that make wild claims without backing them up with some proofs.

Now, the majority of the posts that I read and fall in one of the categories, I don't give any votes for. But there are reasons enough to vote --.

Abigail

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