Update: −2 disagree on this. Extremely frustrating to receive anonymous general feedback.
Trying my best here but I get downvotes a lot and often it feels like it’s based on the opinion expressed in a comment. I seem to get upvoted a lot when I put pictures of evidence in the comment with simple empirical cites.
Downvoters never reply. I suspect because they are obviously afraid I will retaliate their downvotes with my own...
Your moderators have also disciplined me several times, giving general tips that sometimes I can’t find a single message that satisfies their claim. Guess I can’t see my own mistakes. It would be really help to have a policy of citing or making some kind of list of the comments that are unsatisfactory and providing it to the user. You also could provide this list before punishing...
If that’s too labor intensive, you could expand the reaction system to send a separate notification to the user each time a mod reacts to a users content.
Actually ok now that I am thinking, why don’t downvoters have to select the text and provide the negative feedback in order to issue a downvote? Contributing to a temporary ban without feedback is cruel...
Actually ok now that I am thinking, why don’t downvoters have to select the text and provide the negative feedback in order to issue a downvote?
Forcing people to write a whole sentence or multiple paragraphs to signal that they think some content is bad would of course have enormous chilling effects on people’s ability to express their preferences over content on the site, and reduce the signal we have on content-quality a lot.
Downvoters never reply. I suspect because they are obviously afraid I will retaliate their downvotes with my own...
I would be quite surprised if it’s about vote-retaliation. I think it’s usually because then people ask follow-up questions and there is usually an asymmetric burden of proof in public communication where interlocutors demand very high levels of precision and shareable evidence, when the actual underlying cognitive process was “my gut says this is bad, and I don’t want to see more of this”.
Update: −2 disagree on this. Extremely frustrating to receive anonymous general feedback.
Trying my best here but I get downvotes a lot and often it feels like it’s based on the opinion expressed in a comment. I seem to get upvoted a lot when I put pictures of evidence in the comment with simple empirical cites.
Downvoters never reply. I suspect because they are obviously afraid I will retaliate their downvotes with my own...
Your moderators have also disciplined me several times, giving general tips that sometimes I can’t find a single message that satisfies their claim. Guess I can’t see my own mistakes. It would be really help to have a policy of citing or making some kind of list of the comments that are unsatisfactory and providing it to the user. You also could provide this list before punishing...
If that’s too labor intensive, you could expand the reaction system to send a separate notification to the user each time a mod reacts to a users content.
Actually ok now that I am thinking, why don’t downvoters have to select the text and provide the negative feedback in order to issue a downvote? Contributing to a temporary ban without feedback is cruel...
Forcing people to write a whole sentence or multiple paragraphs to signal that they think some content is bad would of course have enormous chilling effects on people’s ability to express their preferences over content on the site, and reduce the signal we have on content-quality a lot.
I would be quite surprised if it’s about vote-retaliation. I think it’s usually because then people ask follow-up questions and there is usually an asymmetric burden of proof in public communication where interlocutors demand very high levels of precision and shareable evidence, when the actual underlying cognitive process was “my gut says this is bad, and I don’t want to see more of this”.