@CarLaTeX you are right, but I think this is not about how important is something. Maybe the person see the picture in the PDF that Paulo and you (and many others) made and think "welp, if I can upvote the other symbol is to downvote". The thing is maybe the person doesn't know why he can downvote, so I think if it was a commentary about these: 1) the person now know for what purposes downvote was created; 2) explain better the mechanism of the site; 3) I am happy :p
I mean what you won for not tell the truth? Sorry, here in my country we are accustomed to not hear all the things... maybe I am crazy :c
@manooooh The first van Duck's article was written for newbies, you need at least 125 rep points to downvote. I think you know how the site works if you reach that score. Maybe he can explain it in the next article, which is about formatting Q&A :)
@CarLaTeX please wait I am going to turn change to laptop
I'm here
@CarLaTeX no I don't know how the site works if I reach that score, and I don't care. I am in favor of showing everything the site has to show us, just that. Why not you? Is it... annoying?
@CarLaTeX sorry for the misinterpreting. I mean they have not had to pay the costs of moving the professor
@CarLaTeX you know? We are in different tunings. I do not see the negative vote as "almost unusable" because it is used little, like you. I see it because it is there, it has been put before certain situations. And those situations are the ones that I fight because they appear. It's like not telling the whole story ("the history is always counted on the side of those who have won"...)
@manooooh A reader asked prof. van Duck to write an article about how to include code and pictures in TeX.SE posts, it could be an occasion to explain also how to downvoted, why not?
@CarLaTeX no, of course no. I don't know how is the organization under these kind of posts. I'm just saying that section 3.4 must includes the option to vote negatively on that response that does not comply with the requirements of the site or with the person who has asked
But of course, by how PDF is assembled it seems that everything is happiness and good things, am I wrong?
I recently posted an answer. It quickly got two upvotes, and then it got a downvote.
When I see downvotes on my posts (and I've gotten a few), my impression is "oops, I totally misunderstood what the questioner wanted. I had better reread it." Up to this point, the source of the downvote was ...
Unfortunately, society is not perfect as we would like. In this way, showing what we want, those who have more points continue to have more points, and those who have less points each time have fewer points
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When should I vote up?
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Oh nothing, I made a mistake. I thought that the question had been asked after it was marked as duplicate to another question, but it turns out that the question was asked before in another forum. My bad
@CarLaTeX telling part of the story does not seem right... Anyway you could erase the downvote, right? i.e. nullifying, remove it from the site
Anyway @JosephWright if you arrived in Rio and considered getting a taxi to Everest, you can try to contact me. I fly KLM, flight KL0705, we might be in Rio at similar times.
As I clear my office, I find I have what looks like a complete set of TUGboats from the very first up to last month, plus a large number of individual issues.
If anyone wants these (or perhaps your library, if you work in a university) please email me. No charge, but there will be a cost to send them.
They are largely of historical interest, as the content is available online at tug.org, but sometimes it's nice to touch paper.
///Peter
@AlanMunn -- i believe you said you have a nexus card, for traveling back and forth across the u.s./canadian border. is this associated with a particular vehicle registration, or with the person to whom it is issued?
@barbarabeeton It's not associated to a vehicle at all. So it only helps at the border if all people in the car have a card, otherwise you have to use the regular lane. It also automatically gives you TSAPre for US airport security (as long as the booking has your number recorded) and lets you through a similar minimal screening at Canadian airports.
I recently posted an answer. It quickly got two upvotes, and then it got a downvote.
When I see downvotes on my posts (and I've gotten a few), my impression is "oops, I totally misunderstood what the questioner wanted. I had better reread it." Up to this point, the source of the downvote was ...
From the Help pages:
What is voting up?
Voting up is how the community indicates which questions and answers
are most useful and appropriate.
When should I vote up?
Whenever you encounter a question, answer or comment that you feel is
especially useful, vote it up!
Instea...
