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Why did my question get a downvote?

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Currently, there is no consensus about whether to provide tooltips for the voting buttons (especially the downvote one). However, the community now includes quite a lot of questions that attracted downvotes and sometimes this created long debates in comments and flagging.

I would like for us to define a few answers for the "Why did my question get a downvote?".

This should help us in providing a reference to a downvote reason, if one "standard" one is appropriate.

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For me the following reasons might lead to downvoting:

  • Posts that are not related to a specific programming issue, but are rather meant to start a discussion. Example

  • Asking for software products differences, unless it is directly connected to software development and asks about one or very few product features. Example

  • There are virtually no attempts of trying a library or framework to solve the problem (pseudocode is fine for the very beginners) Example 1, example 2, example 3.

  • Asking for resources without showing any effort and/or connection to a software development goal. Example

  • The question can be easily answered by a simple copy-paste from the library or framework documentation

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2nd point should be narrowed down further imo (2 comments)
2nd point should be narrowed down further imo
elgonzo‭ wrote over 2 years ago · edited over 2 years ago

I agree with your points, but i would like the 2nd point to be narrowed down further. Asking about "what are the important differences between the Visual Studio debugger and gdb with the various gdb frontend GUIs?" would satisfy the qualifier in the 2nd point about the question being directly connected to software development. However, in reality such a question would be far too broad, running the whole gamut of whatever functional differences, differences in UI/UX philosophies, etc... Thus, i would like to narrow down point 2 further to something like "[...] unless the question is directly connected to software development and asks about one or very few product features only."

Alexei‭ wrote over 2 years ago

elgonzo‭ That's a good point and I have edited my answer. Thanks.