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5:46 PM
I take ownership for the following 2 downvotes:
1 - https://french.stackexchange.com/a/46989
I downvoted because "this is exactly like English" and repeating things as if it were obvious is not useful. Furthermore, instead of using quotation blocks to showcase examples, or at least use italics to distinguish English from French, a quotation block was used to highlight a link to deixis without any explanation whatosoever as to its relevance. Beyond being not useful imho, I find the answer unbecoming of a 30k user on the network.
1 - https://french.stackexchange.com/a/46989
I downvoted because "this is exactly like English" and repeating things as if it were obvious is not useful. Furthermore, instead of using quotation blocks to showcase examples, or at least use italics to distinguish English from French, a quotation block was used to highlight a link to deixis without any explanation whatosoever as to its relevance. Beyond being not useful imho, I find the answer unbecoming of a 30k user on the network.
2- french.stackexchange.com/a/45434 I downvoted the answer because, beyond the poor formatting, it contains an inaccurate statement about the French language ("ça is only used in speech"). As far as my downvotes are concerned, they are imho well deserved and I have 10 dv for 200 upvotes on the site. This contrasts with this user's account which has more downvotes (125!!) than upvotes. Voting etiquette, right.
6:14 PM
@escarlateadamantine In the type of examples I was giving where Ça comes at the beginning, it is only used in speech. Why is the obvious so annoying to you? As for the other answer saying it is exactly like English, the OP is Indian, and saying that will probably help him. Nowhere does it say in the rules or on the site that we have to use block quotes or italics. My answer was visually simple.
Take a look at the Larousse: larousse.fr/dictionnaires/francais/%C3%A7a/11852 Seriously, are any of those written? [text messages include a lot of spoken language]. So does writing like we do here.
7:18 PM
Oh, Larousse, ok your were pointing out to the ça entry. A few examples don't make an analysis of what's happening with usage.
I never serial downvote people but I will enforce stricter standards about inaccurate, incomplete, opinion used as fact statements in the content, whether it's yours or anyone's.
The French Language Stack Exchange site is for linguists, teachers, students, and anyone interested in the finer points of the French language.
When you write content you write for the OP, for the community and for everyone who will read that after.
A person might not be proficient in English so saying something is "like in English" will be totally useless to them.
7:46 PM
It's not like I would downvote an answer or a perfectly formatted, interesting and well put question to punish someone for disagreeing with me, or to boost my own content in relation to their answer or such similar unethical behavior.
It's not like I would plaster my bolded comments all over the place to hijack a thread. I wouldn't use a comment as a mantra over and over or place comments below answers which have nothing to do with the answer below which they appear and then when the person asks why explain that I'm leeching on their content to influence OP and other readers like some propaganda machine.
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9:25 PM
The OP was an an Indian man, which is why I said the thing about the English. Language learners do learn things comparatively. Sometimes they do not get the target language that well and comparison can help them.
@Tsundoku I think if you read over what I posted, you will find that I am very much within the bounds of civil discourse. Just because someone does not like what I say, as is the case here, does not give them the right to attack me. As a general matter, I'm not in the habit of going around insulting people personally, like we just saw here. Have a nice evening (or morning). :)
@Lambie Unfortunately, I don't have time tonight to read the entire discussion thread posted here today.
@Lambie When the number of downvotes by the same user is below a certain threshold, moderator tools don't allow us to detect who that person is. All we have for now is the reputation tab on your user profile, which does indeed show the results of a number of downvotes.
9:55 PM
@Lambie IMO some of your messages were not fit to be called civil. I'd recommend the both of you to follow the CoC here; "If a situation makes it hard to be friendly, stop participating and move on."
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