Together: Which kind of post should be downvoted? [answered]

Incorrect answers should be downvoted. When it's expressing opinions it's better to upvote those you agree with and leave those you disagree with alone.

@jjaone: "what the OP means by "anti-newbiesm"". Probably you mean "https://together.jolla.com/question/12325/code-of-conduct-down-voting/" although I did not write "anti...". I remember a question that was in Finnish and obviously was down-voted just because the newbie did not use English. In another question a newbie asked something rather absurd and was down-voted although it was quite obvious that there was simply a lack of knowledge behind that question (unfortunately I cannot remember details of that question).

@Vaskinn: "Also, answer that are not really answers should be downvoted and/or asked to be converted to comments..." I have such an answer, which was given as answer because it exceeded the max numbers of characters in a comment (only later I learned, that comments can be longer). However, the answer cannot be converted because it exceeds the max. number of characters in a comment :-(

I also cannot remove it, because it was commented already -- apart from the fact, that in general the statement is correct only did not fit that particular original poster, which could not be known at the time of writing.

(I do not mind the few down-votes I received, I was not a newbie any longer when I received them!)

@jgr I've converted many of my answers that were not actually answers when requested to do so (or when self realizing that they are not relevant anymore). The 300 char limit just means that the text had to be shortened first to fit as a comment. If an answer has comments already, it doesn't IMO prevent it to be changed / deleted. If an answer is not anymore in sync with the question (that might have been edited cause new info has appeared) of cause the correct answer should be change too (and the wrong / incorrect / irrelevant answers down-voted, changed, deleted or changed to a comment).

I think @mikelima sums it up quite well in https://together.jolla.com/question/12325/code-of-conduct-down-voting (linking comments should be enabled):

What I do is:

• I vote for proposals I agree with,
• I do not vote for feature I don't care or I have no strong preference
• I downvote proposals I feel detrimental

When I downvote, I leave a comment as for why I did it, because I feel an explanation should be given. Some question/feature request frol me got a few downvotes, and I still do not understand why that was controversial, and I don't want others to stay in the same doubt.

With my personal addition that if one doesn't understand the question or the answer one should ask for clarification and not down-vote because the question or answer doesn't make sense, is "stupid" (there are no stupid questions) or isn't really an answer but a comment (then it should be converted to a comment instead).