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awarded | Popular Question |
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awarded | Yearling |
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awarded | Yearling |
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awarded | Constituent |
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Stack Exchange's heavy reliance on external scripts Humour that's designed to shut down any further fair and open discussion - do you think that's funny? OK... be good to each other. |
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Stack Exchange's heavy reliance on external scripts This kind of disrespectful comment comes from a moderator? Wow. |
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awarded | Teacher |
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answered | Can students ask for changing grades? |
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Voting: meta vs other sites The downvoting/hard -8 limit might not appear to be a problem if looked at in isolation, but that doesn't mean it is a healthy part of the site. For example, people might not bother to bring up good but difficult or controversial discussion topics to avoid receiving a weight of thumbs pointing down: that's just human nature. |
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Voting: meta vs other sites @Pekka Perhaps - but my general point would still be that open discussion (like this) is not as comfortable or easy/lubricated as it might be, which is to the disadvantage of the site as a whole. This has been quite difficult for me to push forward with (knowing that a majority of voters currently disagree), despite your generosity and patience. |
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Voting: meta vs other sites Thanks :) Your suggested solution is innovative; I also don't agree with Waffles' answer. Arguing that the status quo works fine because there's no observable problem is not really a good argument here. It strikes me (from the comments) that there is/should be a difference between downvoting disliked feature-requests, and downvoting open discussion topics, and that difference has been forgotten in the melee. |
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Voting: meta vs other sites Good point about personal rep - but if a controversial discussion scores -8 because of disagreement with the status quo, it gets brushed under the carpet? That still doesn't seem right to me. |
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Stack Exchange's heavy reliance on external scripts @Pekka Google Analytics and Quantcast are blocked, don't worry about that. Based on Google's privacy policy/attitude, it would be naive to imagine that they do anything other than permanently record information about time and frequency that data is downloaded from their own CDN, attached to as many personal identifiers as they have access to. I'd rather not even give them that information. |
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Voting: meta vs other sites No, but it's highly plausible that users who come to make an interesting point would likely decide to delete their own questions with a -8 score in order to maintain their rep here at a workable level (this is known and accepted behaviour on other SE sites). |
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Stack Exchange's heavy reliance on external scripts @Pekka This doesn't seem to be correct. If the file does not need to be called, then why does the functionality break? It may be that I clear my cookies after the session (about the cache I'm not sure) |
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Voting: meta vs other sites @Yannis Yes, I'm really very clear about the difference. My point for discussion is whether that difference is desirable - I would say, it prevents a fair discussion of controversial topics (including this one). |
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Voting: meta vs other sites haha, thanks for the irony of an instant downvote :) |
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Stack Exchange's heavy reliance on external scripts @Yannis oh, thanks. :) |
