Timeline for Unhelpful top answer
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| Apr 3, 2019 at 14:13 | comment | added | Rory Alsop Mod | @GabrielC. I'm glad you raised this. The post was a non-answer, HNQ was the only thing that drove its up votes, the user should know better (they have been around Stack Exchange for a loooong time) - they were being rude to editors. | |
| Mar 24, 2019 at 14:10 | comment | added | imsodin | I completely don't understand why it needs anonymization and bringing this up on meta is perfectly fine. Votes on an answer that was clearly not constructive got out of hand due to HNQ, which is an issue. It might have been better to flag for mod attention and potentially ping a mod via chat, but meta is also a place for this. It's not personal if you call out issues with an answer and ask for clarification on that, just because that answer was posted by a person. If you'd called out the person posting the answer and attacked them personally, then that would have been problematic. | |
| Mar 22, 2019 at 17:40 | answer | added | Rory AlsopMod | timeline score: 2 | |
| Mar 22, 2019 at 14:30 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Mar 22, 2019 at 14:20 | comment | added | Gabriel | @JamesJenkins That's fine with me although the answers make it very obvious what question it is referring to. I wouldn't be suprised or upset if this was deleted entirely. | |
| Mar 22, 2019 at 14:13 | comment | added | James Jenkins | Personally I lean towards you just made a poor judgment call in posting the meta question. We all do things might not have in hindsight. Lets learn from it. | |
| Mar 22, 2019 at 14:13 | comment | added | James Jenkins | @GabrielC. I suggest leaving this meta post open, it may prove helpful to others, and others may want to post answers. Closing it will not make it go away, just prevents new answers. If it should be deleted completely (mod action) is another question, I really don't know which way I lean on deleting it. The seemingly most hurtful part has been edited out of the question, and there are answers from two perspectives that address both the specific question, and hurtful approach. | |
| Mar 22, 2019 at 14:04 | comment | added | Gabriel | @JamesJenkins I was going to vote to close it. Was in the process of anonymizing it while you removed the link. :P | |
| Mar 22, 2019 at 14:02 | history | edited | Gabriel | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Tried to anonymize the question a bit more.
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| Mar 22, 2019 at 14:01 | comment | added | James Jenkins | @GabrielC. I edited to remove the specific reference. You can't close it because it has answers. | |
| Mar 22, 2019 at 14:00 | history | edited | James Jenkins | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
deleted 54 characters in body
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| Mar 22, 2019 at 13:58 | vote | accept | Gabriel | ||
| Mar 22, 2019 at 13:57 | comment | added | Valorum | @GabrielC. - Honestly I think this is an abuse of Meta. You're not supposed to use it just to try to round up a posse | |
| Mar 22, 2019 at 13:56 | history | edited | Gabriel | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Closing words.
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| Mar 22, 2019 at 13:39 | comment | added | Gabriel | @Valorum Two of those 6 downvotes predated this meta post (one was mine) and you have gained upvotes too since. This seems hardly out of the ordinary. I honestly have nothing against you, it's just that a humorous answer isn't usually held in a good light and I was surprised it gained so much traction. | |
| Mar 22, 2019 at 13:13 | answer | added | James Jenkins | timeline score: 4 | |
| Mar 22, 2019 at 10:00 | comment | added | Andrew T. | I have 100% idea why that answer is getting upvoted so much: Hot Network Question. | |
| Mar 22, 2019 at 0:01 | comment | added | Valorum | @CharlieBrumbaugh - Since this meta was posted, I've had a half-dozen downvotes and my post has been vandalised.. | |
| Mar 21, 2019 at 19:26 | comment | added | Skooba - Stands Against AI | It may not be a great answer but there is nothing wrong with it. Considering the number up-votes it has, clearly quite a few users found it helpful. | |
| Mar 21, 2019 at 19:04 | answer | added | ab2 | timeline score: 2 | |
| Mar 21, 2019 at 19:00 | comment | added | Charlie Brumbaugh | There are multiple time where someone went after my edits or post on meta and it felt very personal. You might say I have personal experience with that. | |
| Mar 21, 2019 at 17:44 | comment | added | Gabriel | @CharlieBrumbaugh Why would it feel personal? I don't even have an answer in play on that question. And as you say, there is no reason why I would have something against the poster since it's his only answer on the site. It's just a genuinely bad answer in my mind that inexplicably got voted up. Please, if you think it's a valid answer, tell me why you think so because if I judge it against the guidelines, it doesn't pass the test. | |
| Mar 21, 2019 at 17:34 | comment | added | Charlie Brumbaugh | -1 I highly dislike it when people use meta to try and get an post downvoted especially when its one post by a single user, it makes it feel extremely personal. | |
| Mar 21, 2019 at 17:25 | history | asked | Gabriel | CC BY-SA 4.0 |