Why do people thumbs down certain questions and answers?

Question

These are not just questions I've asked, but ones I've seen.

Eg - 1. should we make the jobseekers do community/charity work?

2. Should illegal immigrants be chucked out of the country.

3. Answers that include being sick of taxes paying for spongers

4. Answers that include being sick of the government not caring for working people.

If you would usually thumbs down these q/a, why? And what would you say instead?

Some of the answers I read are good, valid points, but have loads of thumbs down. I'm interested to know what the alternative would be?

Eg. Let spongers have more benefits, as it may help them get a job (!)

Answer 1

Spite!

Answer 2

They don't even read the answer.If they don't like the poster then tis TD heaven to them

Answer 3

I have noticed that people will give every answer a thumbs down even though every answer is correct. Hope some of this will stop when school starts back.

Answer 4

Mr or MS. NO name I do not know where to start with you. You are living in a NUT shell, your sight are very very short, AKA. close sited, & much more. I do not know where in the h**l your NUT shell is located, I mean what in the world are you locked up in, but you are some one that I have it very hard to communicate with because I do not

know where to start with you, but let me try!.

UNDUCKUMENTED  Person, Those people, most of them work hard &

very hard as well plus they are not taking any job from any body because most of those jobs are what most if not all who are in the country

legally are not doing because they do not want to do it, even when you

give them a lot of money then some of them will take the job but they

do not want to do any thing but show up on the job may be. I am speaking about jobs like Construction fields. What they should do in one day, they take TWO days if you let them, so all you have to do is

to KICKED them off the job. Now you get one of those people give him

the same money and there you get your jobs DONE in the correct time, and done very d**n good so who would you put on your job as an EMPLOYER??. and BEFORE I GO FIRTHER, WHAT THE h**l DO YOU DO FOR YOUR SELF, MR /MS. NO NAME???.

SHUTTING THEM OUT OF THE COUNTRY!.

Like I say I do not know where in the world are you, but this world is  a

very very small place today it in not as large as when I were growing up

this world can hold in the palm of one hand you can have breakfast in

the east, Lunch in west, Dinner in the North, & Supper in the south all

in one day. When I were growing up it take may be one year to do the same trips. sending a letter from quarter of the same country that one

live in it would a week or more today you do the same thing in SECONDS, I will go quick with things so let me go to the next step.

PUBLIC SERVANTS NOT CARING FOR!.

Who are you blaming for this the unducmt. people??  Or you are going to blame your ENIP, DISHONEST  PUBLIC SERVANTS who a lot of them should be in JAILS???.  Then I left this one for the last.



YOUR  TAXES!. This is when I am really sorry I do not know what country you are in because some country like America have arm men and women & there families in other people's country invading there country & is sending the moneys that they are taking from YOU & I in the name of quote & quote TAXES & maintaining those people in there country and leave you out in the cold so why don't you stop been an ostridge and start to think, or you are afraid if you start trying to thinking you would hurt your self???.  Well if you try hard enough you may learn some thing so start now. There are no reason why England should have solders in most if not all the countries that they have them. There are no reason why America should h solders in all over the world ans sending THOUSAND of BILLIONS of TRILLIONS of  Dollars not only to take care of those arm people but taking care of the people that the country is belonging to so why the h**l don't you take your head from under the ground, open your eyes & think?? I have spend too much time with you & do not think you will learn any thing so I could give you more but I won't I will let you look on this much if you can comprehend it    

  

Answer 5

It's just a way to express ones opinion. We vote with Thumbs up or down to help viewers rate the answers. Read the Community Guidelines so you understand how the site works!

Answer 6

It seems that people use the thumbs down for a variety of reasons. Some to show disagreement with an answer, some to vent dislike of the person giving the answer, and some appear to be completely random!

My own reasons for using it would be when an answer is blatantly incorrect, or is full of overt prejudice/hate, or is a spam message.

Answer 7

Because those sort of questions are prejudice, you assume all people on benefits are scroungers or that all immigrants are bad for the country. When its not true, they make the minority look like a majority and it can really offend and upset those people that are having a rough time in life and could do without people saying there scroungers. If you don't like how your taxes are spent move to a country where there are no benefits or welfare service. Your taxes will then pay for the leader of the country to have a solid gold toilet and the unfortunate people live in shacks and eat from garbage. The choice is yours, who would you rather see your taxes help, those who didnt ask to be unable to afford to live or one bloke so he can sit in complete luxury?

Answer 8

this is both the blessing and the curse of free speech.  people can express their opinion, no matter how liberal, conservative, bigoted or pig-headed it may be.

if you don't agree, just shrug and move on.  if it really bugs you, i suggest you give up reading the answers...

;)

Answer 9

Thumbs down are part of the furniture in this place.

They really don't make any difference anyway, so they don't bother me.

Answer 10

they thumbs down because they don't agree with what the person is saying

Answer 11

WTF are you on about?

Rack off.

Answer 12

Busy's right, but there's also those that seem to get a kick out of thumbdowning, particularly in response to a question like this......then, of course it gets worse during school holidays.

Answer 13

Thumbs down are given, because they have strong feelings about someone's response that they don't agree on and are not open to thinking about responser's answer. Some of them are very close-minded and don't read through the whole response, because they read something they don't like.

OR

They find some stupid response to give a thumbs down to.

EDIT: lol, RNuts...