Re:Looking for a new CEO
by mark-r on Thursday March 28, 2019 @11:56AM
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I think a lot of people don't realize how discouraging it is to receive downvotes. They're handed out like candy for any perceived flaws in a question. I'd rather have a dialog in the comments to get the questioner to fix the flaws.
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It should be conpulsory to leave comments when you downvote a question. I always ask people to explain in the comment why they downvote me, and I would get more downvotes and 0 comment.
I've never understood that. It might be because people are afraid of retaliatory downvotes in return. I have enough rep there that I don't worry about it, but even so it never seems to happen.
Two thoughts.
There should be an auto block feature. If you have it on and they downvote you, they get blocked and can't see your posts anymore.
Second thought about gamification. A downvote should cost the person a point or two of their own karma.