Thank you for this discussion!

As a clear noob, I have a few suggestions which would be very helpful for me (as a noob) to understand how not to annoy people so much.

0. HIGH-REP PEOPLE: I came here to get better at something very difficult. I look up to you and think you are awesome. I am not trying to annoy you. Don't make the mistake of treating me like a child by simply anonymously downvoting something I ask that you don't like. Tell me, please. I don't care - say something MEAN if you have to: "too long", "already asked" "google search this", "obvious homework problem". I would rather be embarrassed five times in a row and finally GET IT than annoying everyone forever.

Which brings me to my concrete requests …

1. A mandatory voting dropdown menu should be required for ALL DOWNVOTING. This should not affect overall rep points, but if people simply cannot be bothered to say why a question/answer is bad, offenders will NEVER get better. The menu should be simple; again, it would just be helpful to know "too long", "already asked", "too general", "too short", "not clear", "bad grammar", "other" …anything is better than nothing. Please consider this! It does not need to be anything fancy, but if someone can click once to downvote, they can click twice to select an option from a dropdown.

2. A ranking feature, in addition, or in place of or in addition to the voting. Simple ranks maybe - beginner, moderate, and expert. That way, if I am a noob, I can easily find all the noob questions to answer. When I become moderate I can look at those. Then, for all you experts out there complaining of repeated questions - you won't have to be BORED! If you answer noob ranked questions, you will know what you are signing up for.

I would not mind getting downvotes so much if they could actually be USEFUL. I have other noob friends on this site and sometimes it feels like people downvote solely because of rep point bias. I don't care as much about "negative" or "grumpy" attitudes as I do that this site and community ADAPTS and PROGRESSES with the changing circumstances.

If the only presence that a noob can have on here is a burden then this site and community has already failed and you are going to be responsible for that, not the noobs.

Thank you for this discussion!

As a clear noob, I have a few suggestions which would be very helpful for me (as a noob) to understand how not to annoy people so much.

0. HIGH-REP PEOPLE: I came here to get better at something very difficult. I look up to you and think you are awesome. I am not trying to annoy you. Don't make the mistake of treating me like a child by simply anonymously downvoting something I ask that you don't like. Tell me, please. I don't care - say something MEAN if you have to: "too long", "already asked" "google search this", "obvious homework problem". I would rather be embarrassed five times in a row and finally GET IT than annoying everyone forever.

Which brings me to my concrete requests …

1. A mandatory voting dropdown menu should be required for ALL DOWNVOTING. This should not affect overall rep points, but if people simply cannot be bothered to say why a question/answer is bad, offenders will NEVER get better. The menu should be simple; again, it would just be helpful to know "too long", "already asked", "too general", "too short", "not clear", "bad grammar", "other" …anything is better than nothing. Please consider this! It does not need to be anything fancy, but if someone can click once to downvote, they can click twice to select an option from a dropdown.

2. A ranking feature, in addition, or in place of or in addition to the voting. Simple ranks maybe - beginner, moderate, and expert. That way, if I am a noob, I can easily find all the noob questions to answer. When I become moderate I can look at those. Then, for all you experts out there complaining of repeated questions - you won't have to be BORED! If you answer noob ranked questions, you will know what you are signing up for.

I would not mind getting downvotes so much if they could actually be USEFUL. I have other noob friends on this site and sometimes it feels like people downvote solely because of rep point bias. I don't care as much about "negative" or "grumpy" attitudes as I do that this site and community ADAPTS and PROGRESSES with the changing circumstances.

If the only presence that a noob can have on here is a burden then this site and community has already failed and you are going to be responsible for that, not the noobs.

Thank you for this discussion!

As a clear noob, I have a few suggestions which would be very helpful for me (as a noob) to understand how not to annoy people so much.

0. HIGH-REP PEOPLE: I came here to get better at something very difficult. I look up to you and think you are awesome. I am not trying to annoy you. Don't make the mistake of treating me like a child by simply anonymously downvoting something I ask that you don't like. Tell me, please. I don't care - say something MEAN if you have to: "too long", "already asked" "google search this", "obvious homework problem". I would rather be embarrassed 5 times in a row and finally GET IT than annoying everyone forever.

Which brings me to my concrete requests …

1. Mandatory Voting Dropdown menu required for ALL DOWNVOTING. This should not affect overall rep points, but if people simply cannot be bothered to say why a question/answer is bad, offenders will NEVER get better. Menu should be simple, again, it would just be helpful to know "too long", "already asked", "too general", "too short", "not clear", "bad grammer", "other" …anything is better than nothing. Please consider this! It does not need to be anything fancy, but if someone can click once to downvote, they can click twice to select an option from a dropdown.

2. A ranking feature, in addition, or in place of or in addition to the voting. Simple ranks maybe - beginner, moderate, expert. That way, if I am a noob, I can easily find all the noob questions to answer. When I become moderate I can look at those. Then, for all you experts out there complaining of repeated questions - you won't have to be BORED! If you answer noob ranked questions, you will know what you are signing up for.

I would not mind getting downvotes so much if they could actually be USEFUL. I have other noob friends on this sight and sometimes it feel people downvote solely because of rep point bias. I don't care as much about "negative" or "grumpy" attitudes as I do that this site and community ADAPTS and PROGRESSES with the changing circumstances.

If the only presence on here that a noob can have is a burden then this site and community has already failed and you are going to be responsible for that, not the noobs.

Thank you for this discussion!

As a clear noob, I have a few suggestions which would be very helpful for me (as a noob) to understand how not to annoy people so much.

0. HIGH-REP PEOPLE: I came here to get better at something very difficult. I look up to you and think you are awesome. I am not trying to annoy you. Don't make the mistake of treating me like a child by simply anonymously downvoting something I ask that you don't like. Tell me, please. I don't care - say something MEAN if you have to: "too long", "already asked" "google search this", "obvious homework problem". I would rather be embarrassed five times in a row and finally GET IT than annoying everyone forever.

Which brings me to my concrete requests …

1. A mandatory voting dropdown menu should be required for ALL DOWNVOTING. This should not affect overall rep points, but if people simply cannot be bothered to say why a question/answer is bad, offenders will NEVER get better. The menu should be simple; again, it would just be helpful to know "too long", "already asked", "too general", "too short", "not clear", "bad grammar", "other" …anything is better than nothing. Please consider this! It does not need to be anything fancy, but if someone can click once to downvote, they can click twice to select an option from a dropdown.

2. A ranking feature, in addition, or in place of or in addition to the voting. Simple ranks maybe - beginner, moderate, and expert. That way, if I am a noob, I can easily find all the noob questions to answer. When I become moderate I can look at those. Then, for all you experts out there complaining of repeated questions - you won't have to be BORED! If you answer noob ranked questions, you will know what you are signing up for.

I would not mind getting downvotes so much if they could actually be USEFUL. I have other noob friends on this site and sometimes it feels like people downvote solely because of rep point bias. I don't care as much about "negative" or "grumpy" attitudes as I do that this site and community ADAPTS and PROGRESSES with the changing circumstances.

If the only presence that a noob can have on here is a burden then this site and community has already failed and you are going to be responsible for that, not the noobs.