Timeline for Should I flag an answer that seems to specifically attack people by their beliefs
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| Sep 3, 2017 at 11:28 | history | edited | English Student | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 3, 2017 at 11:20 | history | edited | English Student | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 3, 2017 at 11:15 | comment | added | English Student | That's a valid explanation, @NVZ. I have already mentioned HNQ in my answer and now edited to include the term 'bandwagon effect.' But do you have any solution to the problem of how a bad post can be made to look like a very good post to unwary readers simply because HNQ users have no downvotes? | |
| Sep 3, 2017 at 9:41 | comment | added | NVZ | HNQ effect brings in an avalanche of votes. Many users with their "association bonus" will vote up everything in their way as long as something already has a few votes. It's called the bandwagon effect. I've been saying this for quite a while. The upvotes from HNQ aren't always made judiciously. And downvotes from HNQ is a rare sight, because the "association bonus" does not grant the downvote privilege. | |
| Aug 30, 2017 at 19:20 | comment | added | English Student | In fact blatant, outright hatred in a question/ answer/ comment is more effectively manageable @Beofett because it is unambiguous and can be quickly flagged and deleted. But apparently helpful answers containing nasty statements in disguised context are much more difficult to remove, especially when so heavily upvoted, and can unconsciously poison the minds of impressionable readers, especially those not familiar with people from that community. | |
| Aug 30, 2017 at 19:17 | comment | added | Beofett | @EnglishStudent Sadly, that isn't the worst answer that question received. There's one that has been deleted that is blatant, outright hatred. | |
| Aug 30, 2017 at 18:41 | comment | added | English Student | You are welcome, @Vylix. I really appreciated reading about the architectural wonders of your city and province, and how the history and heritage of 3 great religions enriches your culture. | |
| Aug 30, 2017 at 18:38 | comment | added | English Student | The bad faith aspect in his answer, @Vylix (and I am not referring to the answer referenced in this meta Q) is to begin each paragraph with a nasty statement about that community and then go on to say how 'not all are like that' -- it propogates rumors and misconceptions because those statements will stick in the readers' minds and I got the clear impression that the person was dressing bigotry in sweetly reasonable words. We don't want anybody stirring up enmity between Western and Eastern religions. Regarding the answer that OP referenced, I somehow couldn't form any personal opinion. | |
| Aug 30, 2017 at 18:35 | comment | added | Vylix | @EnglishStudent and I'm very happy to hear that. Thank you :) | |
| Aug 30, 2017 at 18:32 | comment | added | Vylix | @EnglishStudent I'd like to point out it's the longest answer I've ever read. At least in IPS. I didn't bother to read it until the end, maybe like many that upvoted that post. | |
| Aug 30, 2017 at 18:31 | comment | added | English Student | You said it right, @Vylix! Thanks a lot. And by the way, I was hoping to 'meet you' somewhere on these pages and tell you that you are a cultural ambassador for your city, province and nation. I was glad to read about your port city on Wikipedia. | |
| Aug 30, 2017 at 18:29 | comment | added | English Student | I don't want to point to that post, @Hamlet, since my flag was in effect rejected, but the person has buried his explicit, inflammatory and derogatory comments in an answer that 'innocently' states very nasty misconceptions about a particular community and then proceeds to advise OP 'how to teach Bob that not all members of that community are like that' -- another member (the one who wrote the highest-upvoted, sincere answer) has commented pertinently that this answer is in bad faith, but it still got all those upvotes. So members here are just not yet reading between the lines, is what it is. | |
| Aug 30, 2017 at 16:36 | comment | added | user288 | "Another answer by another user to another question similarly collected a large number of upvotes despite containing explicit, derogatory and inflammatory statements about a particular community." if content violates the be nice policy it should be removed. | |
| Aug 30, 2017 at 16:25 | history | edited | Vylix | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 30, 2017 at 16:15 | history | edited | English Student | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 30, 2017 at 15:57 | history | answered | English Student | CC BY-SA 3.0 |