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I cannot understand the meaning of some downvotes

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In my opinion, downvoting some kinds of posts is meaningless.

For example, why should anyone downvote a bug report, like this post? If someone has the same problem, they can upvote the bug report; otherwise, they can skip it. Quite the contrary, I think bug report posts should be heavily upvoted to encourage other users to report bugs of the system.

Another example, why should anyone downvote a community proposal, like this post? If someone is interested in contributing to such a community, they can upvote the proposal; otherwise, they can skip it. Now, if I dislike a subject (or do not like to contribute to a proposed community) and see that there is some proposal covering the subject, then I should downvote the proposal?!

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why should anyone downvote a community proposal, like this post?

Because they think it's a flawed proposal. That really should have been obvious.

In the particular case you cite, note that you got many responses disagreeing with lumping physics and math together. I didn't vote at all, but if I really cared about a math or physics site, I probably would have downvoted too.

Part of it may also have been frustration with your attitude. When people disagree, you basically repeat the same arguments. While there is nothing wrong with sticking to your original opinion, you seem unable to recognize that others disagree without being stupid. Your post here is another example of that.

why should anyone downvote a bug report, like this post?

That is less clear. I also didn't vote on that post. The downvote may be because someone thinks the issue is poorly described, or that you haven't been very helpful in responding to the devs and helping them track down the problem. Perhaps people are using votes on bug reports to give them a relative sense of priority.

It would probably be helpful if there was site-wide guidance of how voting on bug reports should be used.


In my opinion, people should only upvote site proposals they want to contribute to

Yes, it is clear that is your opinion. My opinion, and apparently those of some others differ. Personally I think a combined math and physics site is a bad idea because it would get in the way of real math and physics sites. I'd rather there not be a math+physics site, even if it takes longer to get both math and physics sites.

Now that I to wrote this down (the rubber duck effect), I'm realizing I really should downvote the math+physics proposal. I'll go do that now.

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MathPhysics‭ wrote about 4 years ago

Thanks for your answer. However, although I personally disagree with (or dislike) some proposals (even I disagree with launching any new communities at the present time), I have never downvoted any of them because if I disagree with them I can easily ignore such communities and I am not obliged to contribute to such communities. In my opinion, people should only upvote site proposals they want to contribute to in order that the community team can decide to launch a community or not.

MathPhysics‭ wrote about 4 years ago

I posted that site proposal to see whether there exist enough people interested in such a community or not. After deleting my answer from the math community proposal, I did not challenge anyone about their idea. Those people disagreeing with my idea can easily ignore it.

MathPhysics‭ wrote about 4 years ago

In my opinion, if anyone report any bug even in poorly-described way, they should be encouraged because finding any bug can help the website to be more functional. By the way, some community developer asked me to add a screenshot of the bug, and I explained to them that I cannot upload any image (another bug), so I sent the image through chat.