Timeline for Should we downvote questions that touch on sensitive topics?
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| Oct 11, 2017 at 21:46 | vote | accept | James Cook | ||
| Oct 11, 2017 at 17:14 | answer | added | justCal | timeline score: 6 | |
| Oct 11, 2017 at 13:32 | comment | added | Astor Florida | I also agree, it is a shame. It is probably a good idea for to admit there is a level of "unfairness" in this process. | |
| Oct 11, 2017 at 11:59 | comment | added | Ne Mo | I agree that there should be a higher bar. I think it's a shame this question got smacked over the head with it, but that's an (occassional) price worth paying. | |
| Oct 11, 2017 at 11:18 | comment | added | Astor Florida | NeMo is right; we do have a higher bar for these sorts of questions. And I think this is a good thing. Unless we start getting a lot of ancient Greece trolls, it is acceptable to be a bit more tolerant about sloppy ancient Greece questions. But we do have holocaust trolls, so we should enforce the site rules more strictly for these question. This isn't a coding situation with strict, even rules. This is a social group with messy human interaction. | |
| Oct 11, 2017 at 10:29 | comment | added | Ne Mo | I agree, that question shouldn't have been closed. Denialism aside, there are a lot of bad questions about topics like this: (history.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3472/…) I think the fact that these topics attract low-quality questions, in addition to the denialist questions, has made people trigger happy when it comes to closing and downvoting questions of this kind; there's a higher bar. | |
| Oct 10, 2017 at 11:55 | answer | added | Astor Florida | timeline score: 5 | |
| Oct 8, 2017 at 16:34 | answer | added | TheHonRose | timeline score: 2 | |
| Oct 8, 2017 at 10:55 | vote | accept | James Cook | ||
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| Oct 8, 2017 at 6:52 | answer | added | Denis de Bernardy | timeline score: 3 | |
| Oct 7, 2017 at 23:28 | comment | added | James Cook | My point is that it shouldn't raise so many warning flags. The only real problem I see with the question is that there are no signs of research. The fact that it is an unregistered user could indeed point to some kind of trolling or something like that, but the wording of the question shows otherwise. | |
| Oct 7, 2017 at 23:24 | comment | added | sempaiscuba | Perhaps a question like this from an unregistered user raises more warning flags than it would do otherwise. I've only been a member for 5 months, but I gather from reading meta posts there is some history in that area. | |
| Oct 7, 2017 at 23:17 | comment | added | James Cook | This could be the case, but I find it rather odd that he/she received so many downvotes and so few views. In my experience this doesn't happen only because the person is an unregistered user, but this could be one of the causes. | |
| Oct 7, 2017 at 23:15 | comment | added | sempaiscuba | It has also attracted 3 close-votes and no comments. I get that it is a sensitive topic, but do you think the fact that the OP is an unregistered user might be a factor in the down-votes & close-votes? | |
| Oct 7, 2017 at 23:03 | history | asked | James Cook | CC BY-SA 3.0 |