:bell: IMPORTANT :bell: Lately on StackOverflow t...

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🔔 IMPORTANT 🔔
Lately on StackOverflow there were several instances of down voting Kotlin questions without an apparent reason.

Down voting a question is a measure to stop rude disrespectful behavior on SO, not to express your disagreement with the author. When abused, it discourages people from participating. To quote the SO guideline:

Down-voting should be reserved for extreme cases. It's not meant as a substitute for communication and editing.

Unfortunate examples:
- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44444111/kotlin-infinity-loop-on-list-in-recursion
- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44469756/how-to-detect-values-changed-in-data-class-kotlin

As a community, I believe we can agree not to down vote simple-minded questions on StackOverflow just because you think they should have not been asked. After the Google announcement there going to be even more such question, and this is a normal thing for any popular language.

P.S. This applies even more questions which are asked by obvious beginners with low SO reputation scores. Give them a break!

P.S.S Also, why would you down vote a questions to -7? Isn't -3 enough?
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voddan: I agree, but I think it is a general problem in SO. Not just kotlin. I never downvote in SO, I don't think it's a good way to go