I disagree and I downvoted this because explaining why you downvoted something is disproportionately likely to end up with me arguing with someone on the internet. I find this really unpleasant.
I’m happy to have a rule for giving an explanation to you if I downvote your posts. I’ve talked with you as a person outside of internet arguments, so I’m not as worried about getting into a protracted argument.
But as a general rule, I think I should be discouraged from explaining my downvotes so that I keep up my mental health.
Separately, if this was a thread that had agree/disagree enabled I would just click disagree! The comment is fine, and I try to reserve downvote for things that are mean or grossly incorrect if agree/disagree is available.
To be clear, my feature suggestion is something like a popup reading “you downvoted this, consider explaining why” as opposed to “in order to downvote this, you MUST explain why”.
The pain point I’m trying to solve is “I don’t know why people down vote my comments sometimes and it makes me sad and confused”. Maybe my specific proposed solution isn’t good; my pain point remains, though
I also acknowledge that “explaining why I downvoted” can lead into arguing-on-the-internet which could be negative in a way that I want to avoid (and I don’t want to drag people into).
Oh for sure, I wasn’t thinking you were implying making it a requirement. I was trying to say that even a nudge towards explaining downvotes is a nudge towards evil (for me).
Maybe the net advantage of explaining downvotes would be good, but I personally should probably be discouraged from explaining my downvotes.
I disagree and I downvoted this because explaining why you downvoted something is disproportionately likely to end up with me arguing with someone on the internet. I find this really unpleasant.
I’m happy to have a rule for giving an explanation to you if I downvote your posts. I’ve talked with you as a person outside of internet arguments, so I’m not as worried about getting into a protracted argument.
But as a general rule, I think I should be discouraged from explaining my downvotes so that I keep up my mental health.
Separately, if this was a thread that had agree/disagree enabled I would just click disagree! The comment is fine, and I try to reserve downvote for things that are mean or grossly incorrect if agree/disagree is available.
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To be clear, my feature suggestion is something like a popup reading “you downvoted this, consider explaining why” as opposed to “in order to downvote this, you MUST explain why”.
The pain point I’m trying to solve is “I don’t know why people down vote my comments sometimes and it makes me sad and confused”. Maybe my specific proposed solution isn’t good; my pain point remains, though
I also acknowledge that “explaining why I downvoted” can lead into arguing-on-the-internet which could be negative in a way that I want to avoid (and I don’t want to drag people into).
Oh for sure, I wasn’t thinking you were implying making it a requirement. I was trying to say that even a nudge towards explaining downvotes is a nudge towards evil (for me).
Maybe the net advantage of explaining downvotes would be good, but I personally should probably be discouraged from explaining my downvotes.
Props for taking the time to explain, even though you don’t like it!
Upvoted since you explained why you don’t like my idea, and I like that! :)