1) Also I was inactive in my first year 2) You've seen only my SO activity, my network-wide activity is around 3 times more 3) Note also, that making productive post on slightly different sites is harder, than focusing on a single topic on the SO.
Ok, but using the site as it is intended to - looking for answers to our questions - simply doesn't get so many bad posts. If I see a bad post, also I vote it down. If it is an answer or question, is a no-issue to me. But somehow I see around 10 times more posts deserving up, than deserving down.
I think, the only way, to cast 28000 down and 3000 up, if you are regularly searching for downote targets, and you give the deserved up only very rarely.
Personally, i have this problem where I can't see the world the way other people do. Maybe you do too, but like, when i come across something that can be easily answered, i have a very hard time understanding how the user can't know the answer or can't find it. There's certainly exceptions, but 9 out of 10 questions i visit, the answer is so obvious.
so to me, those aren't useful.
I can't see how they can be useful to anyone else a week from now
so i vote accordingly
that's just one vote though, there's a whole world of people out there who can also vote, to voice that they do think it's useful.
I am trying to get the value of a specific SELECT element in a form that contains multiple SELECTS.
I have used Jquery find to retrieve ALL of the select values and have tried selecting the specific select using the inputs name value.
<form id="newAppointmentForm" >
<select data-id="select-one...
More clearly: it is exactly that crap, whose destruction was never a problem to me. But, check, for example, my this question. Before I started to use it as a reference, it had around +5/-12
that's what's usually referred to as rep farming, it's answering questions that should at the very least be closed, if not deleted. Yes, the user should be helped imo, but by answering the question, it makes it's eventual deletion that much more unlikely.
in my case though, the revenge votes are almost all from people who I tried to help by leaving a comment indicating what i felt was wrong with their post.
I've stopped doing so since the welcoming push.
apparently people don't feel very welcomed by criticism.
Format and grammar helps a lot, and it is easy to do. Writing perfectly on English is hard. So I make all the markups, formatting always perfect, and try to make my English so good as I can.
I always flagged them, only to document, what is going on. And used them as examples of the hostility. And then they somehow... mysteriously stopped. For my latest MSO posts, no revenge down arrived. I have no way to know, if anything was in the background or not.
I have no idea, how could your mysql replication question get so many downs.
Btw, I think this crap question poster was not a rep farmer. He simply wanted to get an answer, but being not perfectly literate, he could not write a comprehensible post. Unfortunately, most of the questions belong today to this line.