So someone copies three page-downs worth of text from carm.org, or answersingenesis, or wikipedia, or anywhere else. I admit that I will often give a thumbs-down not exclusively on merit, but rather because I don't want to scroll past it as I go up and down, reading answers.
I think it's kind of bizarre that Y!A hides answers you don't like - it seems like official sanction to never think about contrary opinions to your own. (At the very least, I'd like an option where you can choose to hide or not hide unpopular answers.)
But I always feel a twinge of guilt doing it. I don't read the answer, I just hit page down three or five or seven times to get to the bottom, and I give it a thumbs down. Not reading it, I'm not 100% positive that I don't agree with it.
So what's the threshold for thumbs-down? What's the confidence interval? Is 95% sure that you won't like the answer enough? Is there a brevity requirement for a good answer?
2007-05-06
15:23:27
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Doc Occam
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