If its unfair to rate someone down on their opinion, is it also unfair to rate someone up on their opinion?
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It is unfair to rate down an opinion as long as it is still a good answer. However, if it isn't a good answer, then you are rating the answer, not the opinion. Its unfair to rate someone up if they give a bad answer, but share your opinion. Does that make sense, or am I wabbling again?
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No. I don't think it is is unfair to rate someone up. I'd agree that it's good to rate someone up if they effectively express their opinion, as that is a useful/helpful answer. However, I also tend to rate people up on their opinion answers if it's an answer that I agree with. i.e., I don't see the point in typing out the same answer as they have, so I'll leave a comment and a rating to show I agree.
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I don't think it's a question of "fairness" at all. It's a question of relationship and courtesy -- nobody is offended by drive-by UP ratings, you're not bothering anybody. Drive-by DOWN ratings are a statement of disrespect: not because you're rating the answer down, but because you aren't demonstrating enough respect for the person to communicate in a constructive and helpful way. I do sometimes rate something down. In my very early bagger days, I don't think I understood what this really meant to the recipient (which is the case for many new users, I think). Now if I do that, I always put in a comment that attempts to be helpful -- even if it may be a bit "jarring" to the listener. To do less than that is to deny that you have an implicit relationship with the person you're criticizing, and that just turns you into a disconnected troll.
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I will not downrate someone for thier opinion alone, I would however downrate someone, if they were very very rude with thier answer (like including name calling in the answer). There are respectful ways of giving your input, and ways that could hurt someones feelings. This is what would cause me to downrate someone. If someone asked a specific legal question, and the answer was wrong, and could lead to that poster getting in trouble, for following the advise given (only if it was blatently wrong), I would downrate it. To be fair, I will include an example. If someone asked, "is it legal to sleep with this person", and someone said yes, and it was in fact illegal, I would downrate that answer. Please for those who have been on here longer than me, is this wrong? I would never come to a site to make enemies.
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Are you still trying to get out of the brain ranking tee hee! I still think you deserve the title you have, you are very informative here! Friendly to!
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I do not believe it is unfair to rate an opinion in either direction. I recently read a question on here: "What do you think about George W. Bush?" Some of the opinions that were offered to that question, I found to be insulting and even offensive. This was true of opinions that favored Bush, and others that were opposed to him. In that, and in other similar, situations, I feel absolutely justified in downrating an opinion. For opinions that I disagree with, but I don't find offensive, I will usually just leave no rating.
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I thought most of this was Opinion.
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No, I don't believe so. I think that an opinion answer is "helpful" when the question asks for an opinion. The answer is, therefore, a useful one to the question. However, when a question asks for an opinion, no answer that respectfully gives the user's opinion can be "not helpful".
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Here is how I do it. If I really agree with someone's answer I give them a helpful rating. If I disagree I don't touch it and just state my disagreement. I downrate for people that are being a jerk.
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When it comes to opinion questions, I rate them for their quality. A well-reasoned, articulate answer that is totally opposed to my viewpoints is helpful. An illiterate moron who agrees with me is Not Helpful. Since my rating is independent of whether they agree with me, I feel I am fair. As for some other people around here....
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