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

I think, in a "whose ... is larger"-like comparation, we are roughly equal, but more likely, different.

I still don't understand how that brings you to that conclusion, that high rep people are out to get you

like, there's far more high rep users who don't cast anywhere near as many downvotes as I do

You are a high rep SO user, and you feel as if you would be unfairly criticized?

I feel like you're missing the point of downvotes, is all

missing the reason people are casting them

you were claiming that people were casting downvotes to prevent people from getting where they are.

I can care less if people earn rep, i just want low quality stuff deleted.

that's it

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.

if they do

You would like to share your knowledge, to answer questions, you have the time and... simply nearly all the questions are crap? This is what you feel?

to an extent

A disappointment?

i found one today that was good, but...

it was a duplicate

so it was closed as such

(by someone else, i couldn't find it)

here's an example post:

Also I hate it. It is impossible to collect rep, if there are no good questions.

I purposely did not vote on this post

because i wanted to share it

this post is... so basic that i can't imagine someone having this question unless they simply weren't willing to think about what the code is doing

The methods being used are very well documented, easy to find, and yet... here we are

these kinds of questions are posted all day every day

I gave it a down and a VtC as unclear. My opinion is that the OP is incapable to formulate a problem in the viewpoint of external readers.

and answering them is almost a garentee that you will "help" someone while also earning rep

so people do it

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.

Now it is on +9/-16, most of the downs arrived as a revenge, because I used it as an example for the meaningless destructivity on the MSO.

that looks like revenge votes

I know those all too well, see my questions

:D

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.

Uhm, your questions... were

i deleted a few of them to make my question/answer ratio a specific value

lol

I edited your this self-answer some years ago

that whole replication situation was horrible

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.

This is what i was looking at on your post: stackoverflow.com/posts/45818964/timeline

you can see that many of the downvotes came at times with little to no activity

the same can be seen in mine, they're just random, often you can tie them to another action you took elsewhere

Yeah. And check the 4 invalidated VtC.

One of my Go questions were tried to be closed as "it belongs to SU". It was a full programming question. The secondary meaning was very clear.

@KevinB Yeah! Particularly on meta activities.

yeah, i just don't bother caring about downvotes on old stuff

it's usually meaningless, and mostly harmless

If you post anything to the meta, and then one of your since years inactive question is voted down, it says a lot

it's not some conspiracy, it's just someone upset who found an outlet to express it.

at least in the case of revenge votes, :p

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.

all time	 	by type	 				month	week	day
4,006	up		18,496	question		7		61		7
28,816	down	14,326	answer

and i've left 23.5k comments

(well, on posts that haven't been deleted)

that's why

i made myself a target

some people react negatively to criticism

i'd even say most people do

Then I understand already! They were revenge downs, but not for meta site activities, but for your commented downs on the main.