I just saw a helpful answer on a question in a review queue
It should've been a comment.
I thought, "This does not provide an answer to the question. Once you have sufficient reputation you will be able to comment on any post; instead, provide answers that don't require clarification from the asker. Thank you for your contribution." would be warmer
The current comment reply simply sounds cold and bureaucratic
While I was going through the Low Quality Posts review queue, I spotted an answer to the question that was genuinely helpful as a comment. When you reccomend for deletion, you're given an option to leave a templated comment on the post to help the author learn. Here's the current text for when an...
@JourneymanGeek, this is ridiculous, my question is about which stack exchange to post a certain question I have..... I don't care what the answer is, I just don't want to get a bunch of negative votes from a bunch of people that I believe to be irrational
most of the CoC upvotes are going to people who are saying the new CoC is asking for too much nice. People that are saying that it's not asking for enough nice, are getting dozens of -1 vote
sigh, a few of the circumstances around the COC are... messy
I actually think there's a happy middle line somewhere. We absolutely need to maintain quality, but I hate the narrative of us getting eternal septembered.
Ok so I can't figure out how many Bangladeshi people live in Hong Kong, I searched a lot of places. The best I could find was that in 2006, the amount was less than 7851, but it might be a LOT less than 7851 because it includes a LOT of different ethnic groups.
"The numbers of Bangladeshis and Sri Lankans were not individually broken out in the 2006 By-Census Thematic Report on Ethnic Minorities, from which the above statistics originate. The total population of "Other Asians", which may include members of those two groups, was 7,851."
Ok but I found it strange that in the whole area51 there is no "geography" stack exchange. There's a chemistry, and a literature, and a history, and all the other subjects we learned in school
Maybe I can get the answer there, but the question I wanted to ask on Meta was a bit bigger, like "why is there no geography stack exchange" or "would a geography stack exchange be well received" or something
The thing is, we've had internet since the 90s and yet there still isn't a place I can ask experts for how to find the thing I'm looking for
In the question I would say "in the whole area51 there is no "geography" stack exchange. There's a chemistry, and a literature, and a history, and all the other subjects we learned in school"
About the existence of Area51 proposals, or like, where to ask a question? Without being downvoted ? I think the downvoting comes because they want to discourage newcomers from asking on Meta
I there a place where I could ask which SE would be most appropriate for asking a certain type of question? Which wouldn't be so risky in terms of downvotes? You've already answered it in this case, but if it happened again?
I think that "ideally the downvoting would be due to lack of research or understanding of SE" but in reality it's a lot more dangerous than that for a newcomer to ask a question.
@user1271772 btw, Meta SE is the place to ask for site-recommendation. But if you're asking why there's no site for [topic], then no one can answer and just tell you to propose that site on A51
@SomewhatMemorableName: I do not know WHY they are like that, but there's people with a huge amount of reputation that make very lazy decisions which are wrong and it can hurt the newcomers asking questions badly
@SomewhatMemorableName: I can agree with that, since the people that closed the question did not know me at all. But the fact that it's not personal doesn't help.
@JourneymanGeek Have other people also made similar accusations?
@SomewhatMemorableName If it happens often, and @JourneymanGeek if it's annoying, then wouldn't you be interested in how to stop it from happening in the future?
@SomewhatMemorableName : I do not think suspending "the user" is the best solution, because for example, I'm a newcomer that's making complaints which are annoying to you. You can suspend me now, but it's too late.
@JourneymanGeek I think you are not understanding at all. Suspending me will not stop other newcomers from making the same "annoying" complaints right?
Maybe there was 1000 people that made annoying complaints before and you suspended them, but I was a newcomer that asked my first question on Meta and decided to complain about the outcome, you can then suspend me too, but do you see how you will not be improving the situation for yourselves?
I also have many things that I don't really agree with some sites' policy, but if that's what the community wants, then I either follow it, or leave the site. Easy.
@JourneymanGeek ranted about how it's annoying when people complain about the "old guard" and I am trying to explain that if it happens so much, maybe we have to think of a way to stop it from happening in the future.
@ShadowWizard: "we can't stop it", I think it's possible to reduce it. There's nothing you can do about the newcomers but there's something you can do about what JourneymanGreek called the "old guard"
There was an abuse of power that happened, in which the question was closed in error extremely quickly. That error was corrected in that the question was re-opened, but by that time there was already so many negative votes, and people here were saying that it's hopeless to get it back. They said they've never seen something come back from that many negative on Meta or Main.
@ShadowWizard : I asked myself that too, because the chat room I made is more appropriate. But this actually started as a different question about which SE I could go to to find out something about Hong Kong
The other thing is that a lot of people seemed not to want to participate in the other room. They were not answering my questions there, but they were talking about what type of sandwiches they liked here
It is not about my rep, or the votes! I don't like how the high rep users are "getting away with it" when they abuse their power. You said that if people are abusive they will get suspended right?
"There was an abuse of power that happened, in which the question was closed in error extremely quickly. That error was corrected in that the question was re-opened, but by that time there was already so many negative votes, and people here were saying that it's hopeless to get it back. They said they've never seen something come back from that many negative on Meta or Main."
Because it's so long ago and the question already has so may downvotes and the user that did it has such a high rep, but in the end they admitted it was an error and re-opened it
People with dupehammers are still normal users. They're also free to use their votes as they want. The community can invalidate their decision with 5 votes at any time
Well, people tend to edit comments into the post body sometimes, it's being helpful. If the author disagree with this, they can just roll back, explain politely to the editor why they did it, and that is it. No need to make so much fuss. @user1271772
The thing is, the "what recourse do I have if I don't like a moderator's action" did NOT have the answer to the question I was asking, which is "how often do pro tem mods change" the reason is because I thought it was like a 1-year term like the editorial board for journal of mathematical physics
"They don't unless the site graduates or they retire on their own, usually" that's literally what I put, which is the correct answer right? But higher rep users came and repeated the same thing and got way more upvotes