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The help center includes a rather generic (it's the same for all communities) article about voting. Recently a user flagged a question asking why it had received so many downvotes. While flagging ...
#1: Initial revision
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Alexei
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2021-05-23T14:39:41Z (over 3 years ago)
Do we need more specific up/down vote reasons for Software Development community?
The help center includes a rather generic (it's the same for all communities) [article about voting](https://software.codidact.com/help/voting). Recently a user flagged a question asking why it had received so many downvotes. While flagging is not for this type of issue, this made me wonder if users are aware of how upvote and downvote are supposed to work and what they mean for the Software Development community. Should we have a more clear and concise way of conveying the information about upvoting and downvoting? As a reference, I like how the SE network shows concise tooltips for each of the two actions: **For questions** - Upvote - This question shows research effort; it is useful and clear - Downvote - This question does not show any research effort; it is unclear of not useful **For answers** - Upvote - this answer is useful - Downvote - this answer is not useful Not sure how it would be better from a UX perspective, but replacing the computed score with such tooltips might provide more value.