Timeline for Commenting when downvoting
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| Mar 16, 2014 at 14:55 | comment | added | JTP - Apologise to Monica | And yet, there are times my comment might be taken as criticism, so I start "I'm not the DV, but you might add/consider/clarify....." There are also times a bad typo creates an incorrect answer but context lets me just edit and the member's answer is fine. | |
| Mar 14, 2014 at 3:47 | comment | added | Daryl | I upvoted this answer as it was the correct action to take (It was my answer I suspect that you downvoted). The comment left directed my attention to improve the wording of the answer for future readers. In my opinion, this is what downvotes are meant to do! | |
| Mar 14, 2014 at 2:40 | comment | added | Thomas | I agree with @JoelReyesNoche. | |
| Mar 14, 2014 at 2:35 | comment | added | JRN | "Should I also mention in the comment that I voted the answer down?" In my opinion, no. You've already given input to the OP (original poster); you do not need to specify that you downvoted. | |
| Mar 14, 2014 at 2:09 | comment | added | Thomas | Also: If you downvote and provide a reason, then you can undo the downvote is the poster edits his or her post and you no longer think it should be downvoted. | |
| Mar 14, 2014 at 2:08 | comment | added | Thomas | I think you did the right thing. You provide a comment explaining why you don't believe the answer is correct. And then you downvoted because of that. That is exactly the way it is supposed to be. One might want to provide the comment first giving the poster an opportunity to edit his/her answer. | |
| Mar 14, 2014 at 2:04 | comment | added | Sue VanHattum Mod | To be specific, on the visual pythagorean question, an answer gave as a proof something that is not. I said that. And I downvoted. I am hoping I've done that correctly. (I think I'm starting to see the difference between comments and answers.) | |
| Mar 14, 2014 at 1:55 | comment | added | Thomas | Yeah, it takes a bit of time to get used to the way Stackexchange works. On that note, this answer should probably have been a comment to my question. All I am saying with my suggestion is that when you downvote question or an answer, you provide a nice comment explaining why you downvoted the post. Does that make sense? | |
| Mar 14, 2014 at 1:50 | history | answered | Sue VanHattumMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |