Timeline for Mass downvoting of a well referenced pertinent answer: Why is an answer that is a complement to others considered so bad?
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| Mar 26, 2023 at 14:56 | comment | added | Ritesh Singh | @cag51 Thank you so much for this guidance. As an inexperienced writer on SE with only a few attempts, I believed that I should try to continue to improve the answer to make it acceptable to the community. | |
| Mar 25, 2023 at 12:57 | comment | added | cag51 Mod | Once the downvote train gets rolling, it’s hard to apply the brakes. I wouldn’t worry too much about it at this point. | |
| Mar 25, 2023 at 7:26 | comment | added | Ritesh Singh | @Anyon The answer continues to be down-voted even now, long after removing the trivia details after the 1st downvote, as well as adding sufficient text to fit the evidence with the question. So, it does seem to me that it is mass downvoting to punish a political disagreement, rather than the quality of the answer. | |
| Mar 24, 2023 at 8:43 | comment | added | Ritesh Singh | @cag51 I understood the dilemma. My answer only tries to emphasize that under no circumstances is it best to reject heretic claims based on their contrarianism alone, without going through the reasoning. It may still have to be done due to other constraints of time and effort, but it is never best. | |
| Mar 24, 2023 at 8:29 | comment | added | Ritesh Singh | @Anyon Please forgive me, for some reason I felt that the mentioning the manner of deaths helps me connect with the humanity of the scientist in question. I can see how that could be considered distracting and irrelevant. I will not include it in future. However, most of the downvotes were after I had removed the manner of death (I removed it after only the first downvote). | |
| Mar 24, 2023 at 8:17 | comment | added | Ritesh Singh | @cag51 I understand, thank you. I will try to write better answers in future. | |
| Mar 24, 2023 at 8:15 | vote | accept | Ritesh Singh | ||
| Mar 21, 2023 at 16:25 | comment | added | Anyon | Some downvotes may also be because of how replete the early versions of the answer were with trivia details that are irrelevant both to the question and the point made in the answer, such as causes of deaths. | |
| Mar 21, 2023 at 14:55 | history | answered | cag51Mod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |