Why would anyone downvote a question on No Stupid Questions?

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• sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz ⁨24⁩ ⁨seconds⁩ ago

  But I’ll nevr tell 😉

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• NotAnOtter@lemmus.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  If they don’t contribute to good conversation.

  “Stupid questions” i.e. questions that reveal you are missing some basic common knowledge, are actually generally downvoted on No Stupid Questions. Along with any that intentionally agitate people or are otherwise bad faith, bury the lead or otherwise strawman The Correct Side in an unpleasant way.

  There needs to be something at least marginally interesting about the conversation the question generates. If it’s just annoying/tedious/aggravating, people will downvote.

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• radix@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  There are bad faith questions[1], (at least somewhat) self-answering questions[2], and poorly asked questions[3].

  [1] “Are you still cheating on your spouse?” type questions that are meant to evoke a response rather than ask a real question that deserves an answer.

  [2] is a little harder to define, but I have definitely seen a few where even the smallest amount of thought about what is being asked would make the answer obvious.

  [3] includes questions that have so many answers depending on factors not specified that they’re impossible to answer without writing a book covering every assumption that goes into each possibility.

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  • dustyData@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The worst are the troll questions. They’re just meant to stir flamewars in the comments. No one, specially the OP, is interested in the actual answer.

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• corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨42⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  Spelling.

  FAQs? Logically impossible questions? Something violating rights, like “why are whiteys even allowed to exist” or so?

  For me, it’s spelling.

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• slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Engagement bait, US defaultism, the person already knows better and shouldn’t be asking. There are a couple.

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• GreenBeard@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  A question asked in bad faith isn’t stupid, it’s a question in bad faith. Bad faith questions are quite common unfortunately. Rhetorical questions, begging the question, questions that are based on a sneaky false premise, etc. The subject might not even realize that the question is bad faith, because they acquired that question elsewhere. The fact it was honestly posed by a proxy, doesn’t change the fact that the question is bad faith.

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• YoFrodo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  yeah, some people confuse “I dont want to promote this” with “this should be punished with downvotes”

  If ppl dont like a question they should just not engage or upvote

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  • Kintarian@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Maybe they should go back to Reddit

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    • mafishfayda@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      humans are humans everywhere!

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• Rhaedas@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  No question made in good faith and ignorant of possible answers is stupid.

  The answer to the question posed is simply people have differing opinions on how a downvote in particular should be used. My thought is that it should be for a post that has no relevance in the thread. If I disagree, then I post a comment. An upvote should be used where you think more people should see it, not necessarily if you totally agree with it.

  An up or downvote without more engagement just to agree or disagree is lazy, but at least the upvote is serving a little purpose.

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• schwim@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’d be quite surprised if you didn’t understand the most basic psychology behind some people feeling the urge to downvote something for a reason other than it being something worthy of a downvote.

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