What does the "not useful" downvote mean on philosophy.stackexchange?
Perhaps I'm not getting it. Seems like there's a broad consensus on what sort of questions we don't want to answer. Does that mean that they are not useful?
What does the "not useful" downvote mean on philosophy.stackexchange?
Perhaps I'm not getting it. Seems like there's a broad consensus on what sort of questions we don't want to answer. Does that mean that they are not useful?
Seems to me that an un-useful question is one for which I or we do not want to know the answer.
This may be because:
The last two are a little problematic. When is a lack of an interesting answer the fault of the question? And how personal is the interest to a question?
However, the voting system, on this site, exists for reasons that include them.