Timeline for Why all the negativity?
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| Apr 4, 2017 at 8:51 | comment | added | Manfred Weis | Just happened to me again; a troll or ninja downvoted two of my answers to questions that haven't been active for about a week. I am not against downvoting my answers or posts, but not leaving any comment isn't nice. | |
| Apr 2, 2017 at 10:54 | answer | added | Paul Siegel | timeline score: 11 | |
| Mar 31, 2017 at 12:31 | answer | added | coudy | timeline score: 9 | |
| Mar 28, 2017 at 5:58 | comment | added | Delio Mugnolo | I also have the feeling this is a cultural question. Unlike other sites (say, Quora), MO is not obviously dominated by American users and this exposes MOers to social behaviors they may be not used to. In my professional life I've often experienced that social interactions in European academia are much less based on appreciation and praise than in the USA. This may explain why behaviors that are perceived as "normal criticism" by European users are frustrating the OP. | |
| Mar 26, 2017 at 0:44 | comment | added | Thomas Rasberry | I, too, appreciate this site - and all the Exchanges - quite a bit. For certain, StackExchange helped with not only my dissertation (which is my first attempt at literature-level writing) but also in passing my Complex and Real Analysis qualifier. That being said, I am of late intimidated asking questions, especially on MO, as I know that many rules - some of which I am still unaware - could mean my post is doomed to deletion and negative reactions for reasons I sometimes overlook. The result has been a bit of a trepidation to use MO - even MO Meta. But rules are rules, and I must follow. | |
| Mar 25, 2017 at 7:49 | comment | added | zibadawa timmy | Tags are a bookkeeping device of the site, which are used to help organize similar material, in part so people looking for answers to things (the entire point of the site) can more easily find them. They're not there for the asker, but everyone else. So while the suitability of some tags can be debatable for some questions, by and large questions should try to use them in accordance with a site standard. Though if you have specific concerns about the function, relevance, and use of certain tags, you can bring that up. It's in the site's best interest to have useful, populated tags. | |
| Mar 24, 2017 at 22:58 | comment | added | user10290 | Thanks everyone, I really appreciate it. Both answers were great. | |
| Mar 24, 2017 at 22:57 | vote | accept | CommunityBot | ||
| Mar 24, 2017 at 19:22 | answer | added | Todd TrimbleMod | timeline score: 35 | |
| Mar 23, 2017 at 18:35 | answer | added | Stefan KohlMod | timeline score: 34 | |
| Mar 23, 2017 at 2:19 | comment | added | Andy Putman | I also think that one cultural thing that made your question poorly received was the large picture of handwritten text. Using TeX is culturally expected here. | |
| Mar 23, 2017 at 2:17 | comment | added | Andy Putman | By the way, in regards to your deleted question, if $x$ is obtained by changing finitely many digits of $e$, then you don't need anything at all to prove that $x$ is trancendental. Namely, the difference $e-x$ is rational; if $x$ were an algebraic number, then $e = x+(e-x)$ would also be algebraic, a contradiction. This is implicit in with Gerhard Paseman said, but I thought it might be useful to make it explicit. | |
| Mar 23, 2017 at 2:00 | comment | added | Lucia | For reference, here is the deleted question: mathoverflow.net/questions/265294/… . It got one downvote, but I don't see anyone being sarcastic in the comments. GHfromMO is very helpful in answering many questions in number theory, at all levels. I am sure that he only meant to be helpful in editing tags, and I would concur that number theory is the suitable tag. I would also be unsure if that question was suitable for this site --- the Wikipedia article would have been sufficient for it. | |
| Mar 23, 2017 at 0:52 | comment | added | user10290 | Plus, I did ask a deeper question. I'll try math stack exchange for this one. | |
| Mar 23, 2017 at 0:47 | comment | added | user10290 | Thanks, I do take it very personally. I think tags are subjective and should be the questioner's choice. I put real-analysis and set-theory for the question about transcendentals because to me the uncountability of the transcendentals is what began set theory. And the larger question in my mind is about set theory. But someone removed that so I had to defend it in my question. Then someone removed the real analysis tag and just put number theory. Then it starts getting downvoted probably because it is in the wrong place. I think my tags were appropriate. I don't want to come here to fight :) | |
| Mar 23, 2017 at 0:38 | comment | added | Stefan Kohl Mod | I think this site is the right place for such enquiries -- but it might help if you provide a link to your removed question, such that people can see what you worry about. In general, editing a question or changing tags is in no way negative feedback. Negative feedback are downvotes, close votes, delete votes, low quality flags and negative comments -- which of these did you get, and how often? -- In any case, I think you should not worry in any way about posting on MO -- I see you have asked 20 well-received questions and given 2 well-received answers so far. | |
| Mar 23, 2017 at 0:04 | comment | added | user10290 | Thanks, I just want anyone to see it. And thanks for your comment on the question I posted. That and the other helpful comment that followed is all I really needed and it could have just ended there and it would have been just fine. | |
| Mar 22, 2017 at 23:41 | comment | added | Gerhard Paseman | While I understand the frustration, this might be better as an email to the moderators. When they think it is appropriate, they may compose a meta post for you. I do think you should talk about it, but check with the moderators first. Gerhard "Sorry This Happened To You" Paseman, 2017.03.22. | |
| Mar 22, 2017 at 22:24 | history | asked | user10290 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |