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

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[voddan]

🔔 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?
Slack Conversation

[oshai]

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

[voddan]

One of the benefits of Kotlin they list is a strong and welcome community. If nobody does anything about it, it doesn't mean we can't

[elect]

I totally agree with all the points expressed here. However SO is kind of slowly going in the right direction, if you downvote without a reason, you'll lose 2 points. I hope in the future writing a reason to downvote would be mandatory..

[sksk]

i seen the same issue on reddit, most kotlin related stuff are downvoted pretty quickly

[voddan]

@sksk I suspect Reddit down votes are done by people outside of the community, while SO down votes are possibly done by ourselves. We can't do anything about the firsts, while we can about the second

[elect]

some hater/s?