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Jazz
<p>Why censor people who are trying to help you? </p>
<ul>
<li>If their answer is incorrect, others will correct with constructive feedback.</li>
<li>If their answer is rude, inappropriate or otherwise trollish, the [Node Reaper] will
save the day. </li>
</ul>
<p>Put yourself in position that you propose everyone should be put in...</p>
<p> You post what you perceive to be a good and useful answer. You feel happy
that you tried to help by giving back to the community . Then one of the following happens:</p>
<ul>
<li>The post gets deleted and/or marked as a "bad answer" by the person who
asked the question. You either:
<ul>
<li>Get upset and think "sh*t;, if the person knew enough to mark
it as a bad answer, why the $!*%& ask the question??"</li>
<li>Take it personally and restrain yourself in the future from trying to
help.<br>
<br>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>The post is replied to and is corrected (hopefully politely) by other users.
<ul>
<li>Everyone who sees the original post and its corrections benefit.</li>
<li> Others
who may have been making the same mistake take note.</li>
<li>Heed the corrections, improve your own coding skills, and happily move
on trying to help others.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p>It doesn't sound like a beneficial proposal from this standpoint, does it.</p>
<p>Also, I disagree with your "<i>Simple downvoting does not seems enough
to m</i>e" comment.</P>
<P>IMHO, downvoting in the case of someone trying to help
(even if it's an incorrect answer) is not just cause for downvoting.
Incorrect answers should result in a /msg to the author letting them know about
the mistake or a constructive reply to their post. I only downvote when people abuse, slander, or are intentionally giving
bad information (<i>e.g. "rm -rf will fix your problem"</i>).</p>
<p>I can see of no good reason for this kind of censorship, and hope that it never
comes to reality.</p>
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