Timeline for Should we downvote questions that touch on sensitive topics?
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| Oct 11, 2017 at 21:21 | comment | added | TheHonRose | @DenisdeBernardy Interesting point, I hadn't thought about it like that, but you could well be right. Goes off to mull ;-) | |
| Oct 11, 2017 at 21:21 | comment | added | Denis de Bernardy | @TheHonRose: Adding to this, closed questions sometimes get reopened (we could admittedly do this more often as a community), whereas downvotes are seldom - if ever - reversed in my experience. | |
| Oct 11, 2017 at 21:14 | comment | added | Denis de Bernardy | @TheHonRose: Yeah, kind of... To me, close voting a question means something like "this does not meet this/that objective criteria that makes it valid to stay around on this site", whereas a downvote means something more subjective along the lines of "holy crap, your question really sucks/is outright offensive/is too biased to be read/etc." The first fits in a well defined mold; the other is left at the downvoter's discretion - and let's get real, can hurt feelings when it lacks explanations that might not be obvious to the person who wrote the question. | |
| Oct 11, 2017 at 21:08 | comment | added | TheHonRose | @DenisdeBernardy Personally, I think a down vote less aggressive than a vtc. Do you see it differently? | |
| Oct 11, 2017 at 21:01 | comment | added | Denis de Bernardy | FWIW your question (2) would attract my instant downvote and close vote for using "merely". The latter implies a value judgement and it's the type of question that's usually asked by people who aren't so much interested about contributing to the site than they are about "here's my thesis, am I right?" and then go on with accepting an answer that best suits their viewpoint - ignoring votes by other users that might be based on an answer's merits. (Without the "merely" I'd likely stick to a close vote because "not enough research".) | |
| Oct 11, 2017 at 14:28 | comment | added | TheHonRose | @NeMo First, thanks for the No true scotsman argument, not familiar with that, I'm no logician. I'm not defending the questions, they were "off the top of my head" examples, not good ones! :) However, on the Christianity - slavery one, there seems to be an internal inconsistency in believing your cook is your brother in Christ whilst treating him as property. But we've strayed a long way from the subject of the original question! | |
| Oct 11, 2017 at 12:00 | comment | added | Ne Mo | TL;DR: questions which make a covert value judgments will and should be closed. | |
| Oct 11, 2017 at 10:26 | comment | added | Ne Mo | Number 3 is less unsalvageable, but contains a no true scotsman fallacy which practically all discussions over religion are plagued with. (a) christianity is good, (b) slavery is not good, (c) therefore slavery is not christian... and why didn't they just GET that, man? It just leads us down a rabbit hole of value-judgment debate, and doesn't really explain why we should expect that ancient Christians should have opposed slavery. | |
| Oct 11, 2017 at 10:22 | comment | added | Ne Mo | Number 1 is a good question. 2 and 3 ain't. What's a legitimate state, other than one which calls itself legitimate (they all would)? This post would be rightly closed, because it's assuming we already know the answer to an entirely subjective question. | |
| Oct 10, 2017 at 13:23 | comment | added | TheHonRose | @axsvl77 thank you, it was dealt with. | |
| Oct 10, 2017 at 12:20 | comment | added | Astor Florida | I am sorry you were mauled; that's not right! | |
| Oct 10, 2017 at 12:02 | comment | added | Astor Florida | I do not agree; I honestly think the questions you pose would not be closed (if asked well). This question about Nazi propaganda is uncomfortable but did well. The knee jerk around here is for immediately closing holocaust denial. | |
| Oct 9, 2017 at 22:57 | comment | added | sempaiscuba | You make a very good point. I've certainly seen some questions here that made me uncomfortable, and a couple that I would have been reluctant to answer. | |
| Oct 8, 2017 at 16:34 | history | answered | TheHonRose | CC BY-SA 3.0 |