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Don't notify users that downvoting answers will trigger roomba #41

Closed cigien closed 3 years ago

cigien commented 3 years ago

The intent of the notification is for efficient allocation of curation resources. A detailed explanation is here https://chat.stackoverflow.com/transcript/message/51920471

OTOH, this is a confusing notification, and has the potential to be misused, i.e. users might downvote answers they wouldn't otherwise. This is frowned upon https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/307009/clean-up-by-downvoting-a-ridiculous-user-experience/307010#307010

Users might misuse this feature with good intentions, i.e. site cleanup. However, I think avoiding tempting users is a good idea.

makyen commented 3 years ago

Thank you for submitting this.

I decided to go a bit of a different direction. I left the functionality in, but

  1. Made it disabled by default.
  2. Turned it off for everyone, but users can re-enable, if they choose to.
  3. Added an additional tooltip-like popup which explicitly reminds the user to keep in mind that downvoting just to trigger the Roomba is inappropriate.