Curious As To How People Rate Responses?

I give thumbs down to answers that are conservative or otherwise ignorant.

I find that it truly depends on the question. I do not give thumbs down often, but if I do it is because:

-Question is not detailed enough to understand.

-Off topic/Inappropriate/Against Yahoo! Answers Community Guidelines

-Rude

-Sometimes if I disgree with an answer, but I first research to make sure if they are fully right. I want to be honest with my rate responses and not give thumbs down for no reason.

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Thumbs down belong on answers that violate the rules or contain factual errors (to give people a 'heads up' that something might be wrong). Opinions should not be part of the evaluation process.

I only give thumbs up.... and it depends. Usually I thumbs-up happy. If they give a good, or funny answer I'll give them a thumbs up. Sometimes I'll see a serial thumbs downer and automatically give every answer a thumbs up whether I like or agree with it or not. When I ask a question, every answer automatically gets a thumbs up, regardless of what they write.

Hi

It depends on the questions.

In polls, I always thumbs-up answers, because it's their opinion...how can you TD someone's opinion, you know?

In other questions, ones that are based on opinion or fact, I usually thumbs-down answers that clearly don't answer the question, or that are rude and disrespectful, or that advertise. Other than that, I thumbs-up answers that I find thorough and informative, I TU answers that add helpful websites, and I TU answers that are nice and respectful.