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I asked a question to the Software Development Codidact site here. I monitored it closely for several hours in case there was a quick response. A day later I found a couple comments waiting for me ...
#1: Initial revision
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Josh Hyatt
·
2022-05-12T22:16:45Z (over 2 years ago)
Downvoting Response Delays
I asked a question to the Software Development Codidact site [here](https://software.codidact.com/posts/286411). I monitored it closely for several hours in case there was a quick response. A day later I found a couple comments waiting for me but was not able to respond at the time. Two days later I made the time to get around to answering them, but found [another comment](https://software.codidact.com/comments/thread/6263#comment-17461) waiting for me alongside a downvote. The comment indicated that the user had downvoted the post because of a 2-day lack of response. I find voting on posts to be a useful tool to sort through questions that may need additional cleanup or focus. I'm not sure that the downvote feature was used correctly in this case. I understand the desire to keep the site clear of directionless content etc., but after searching around on the site's posting guidelines, but I can't convince myself that the downvote was justified. Was this a legitimate and constructive use of downvoting? If so, what principles of this site may have guided this use case? If not, are there reasons to keep it that way?