@poige Please don’t ask people how they voted. Votes are private for very intentional reasons.
> Funny things happen when you start making vote information public. For upvotes, it's sort of okay, but downvotes are problematic - folks get angry, exact revenge by downvoting a bunch of a specific user's posts, etc
As the Stack Exchange websites grow and become more popular I see a few problems that are arising/could eventually arise. Reputation is a useful metric for me personally - it often determines which answers I read and which I skip - so I think this is a valid question. Now I'm sure, the people who...
Why is there no possibility to make upvotes onymously? Seeing positive votes from credible other members would highly increase transparency and trust in answers.
Has anything like that been tried out so far?
What strong opinions are against such an option? Why not even make such behavior defa...
See my posts above about anonymous voting. None of the people that commented on your question about single user boot can see votes - not elected mods, not low rep users, not high rep users. We do suspend people or contact them when there are pattern votes. We can’t find evidence when there is one single post in question.
@bmike the question was "had @Tetsujin ability down vote my reply out of revenge to my flagging his code-of-conduct violating comments as such OR was he suspended as consequence of such violations and thus couldn't down vote my reply"
I still haven't posted anything to Reddit/Medium/etc in regards of this corruption incident
Mostly due I still haven't gotten a reply from site owners yet
So as said before I have enough evidences of corruption here among "high reps" mods/users that cover each-others nasty deeds violation Code of Conduct w/o consequences to them whatsoever
I'll wait for a bit. You still have time to confess, say sorry, resign (probably)
@poige I did ping them in the main moderator lounge to be sure someone knows you asked them to review things. I have no way to know if they read it or not, but I will make sure someone confirms they received it. I’m going to sign out and ask them to look at the threats being made. I’m not taking it personally, but it sure looks like you are threatening either nohillside or me for volunteering here as moderators.
I hope you have a good day. Also - if you flag a message here in chat - that will get the attention of site moderators. You can ask on main meta as well.
@Catija looks like you're not that well informed of what's happened although I've reported Code of Conduct violation from High Reps users/mods pretty a while ago
The primary concern is of course corruption among high reps
I've faced bulling, my perfectly correct answer is down voted, theirs violation of code conduct has been hidden
Downvotes are hard to receive. I've been here for years and they still sting. I do everything I can to make sure that my answers are as accurate as possible and, yet, they still happen.
But we can't force people to vote a certain way. We give users the freedom to use their votes as they see fit, as long as they're not targeting their votes at a specific person (up or down votes, both).
High reps users can violate code of conduct w/o consequences
They can revenge down post your reply w/o consequences
They erase all evidences of such violation because theirs accounts are powerful enough to do that
And everything is perfectly fine to them
I remember once being contacted through LinkeIn by this site member who got 1 year suspension by similarly corrupted mods. My understanding is they're not transparent at all
They're covered by reps power and can do whatever they want
Did anyone of them get even week long suspension due violation of Code Of Conduct?
I think that there's some confusion. The normal response to content that violates the Code of Conduct here is for it to be removed! That is good! We certainly don't want to have abusive content sitting around for others to see. It makes the site seem less welcoming. I'm sorry that there were problematic comments directed towards you.
Our general response is not to suspend users for single offences.
Generally, we consider "revenge downvoting" to mean that someone has gone around and downvoted all of your posts because they were written by you rather than because of the content.
I'm saying that from what I've seen, I don't see any issues with how things have been handled. Comments that were flagged as unwelcoming were handled quickly.
I'm facing hostile reaction to absolutely correct answer that I've found reading Mac OS manual and later (during dispute in comments) found out that Wikipedia article on this very subject literally has the very same answer. Of course there happened a reaction like "I'd rather believe what Apple m...
I'm not capable of identifying whether your answer is correct. But your question seems to say "without rebooting" but your answer includes the "reboot" command, so it at least looks like that command will reboot your computer.
What may be the problem here is that your question is very short. It could benefit from an edit to explain what your goals are so that you can get a good answer and other users will be able to judge whether your answer does actually solve the problem in the question. Similarly, explain in your answer why the answer does what the question is asking.
Does your answer send a reboot command to the computer? If so, can you explain how that meets the needs of your question, which specifically says "without rebooting"?
You disagreeing with the downvotes doesn't make the system corrupted. We judge answers on two factors here - 1. Are they correct - 2. are they well-explained and supported. An answer can be technically correct but unhelpful to others because it's unclear how it works and thus be downvoted.
It's irrelevant of the person's reputation level. If he was doing the same thing to you right now, I'd be telling him the same thing. It's not appropriate behavior and it needs to stop.
@poige - I didn't even know the question had even been asked until I got here this morning to find I'm being subjected to multiple pings for no apparent reason.
From Why is there no reputation change in meta:
I wasn't around when the meta on the main trilogy was formed, but meta we down vote things we don't want to see. It's like a caucus or straw vote. If I raise a controversial issue and everyone disagrees - the downvotes shouldn't take away from m...
As the title suggests, my 2 iPads have the same login, the same iCloud backup, but the contacts list on both is different.
Is there a way I can merge the two so they're synced?
My old iPad has most of the contacts I want, the new one has newer ones which weren't in the old one, so don't really...
By way of feedback, the edit didn't add any value to the question, but more importantly adding the iPad tag is somewhat misleading as the fact that the user has an iPad is irrelevant to the issue they're having. Let me explain it this way, if the user said they had two iPhones instead of two iPads, would the cause of their issue be any different? No. Why? Because the iPhone hardware (or iPad hardware) is irrelevant to the problem.
So the iOS tag is relevant, but not the iPad tag (which I happened to remove in my initial edit as the OP also used it). Hope this makes sense, but let me know if it doesn't.
Why is there no possibility to make upvotes onymously? Seeing positive votes from credible other members would highly increase transparency and trust in answers.
Has anything like that been tried out so far?
What strong opinions are against such an option? Why not even make such behavior defa...
From Why is there no reputation change in meta:
I wasn't around when the meta on the main trilogy was formed, but meta we down vote things we don't want to see. It's like a caucus or straw vote. If I raise a controversial issue and everyone disagrees - the downvotes shouldn't take away from m...
As the title suggests, my 2 iPads have the same login, the same iCloud backup, but the contacts list on both is different.
Is there a way I can merge the two so they're synced?
My old iPad has most of the contacts I want, the new one has newer ones which weren't in the old one, so don't really...
