Upvote mechanism does not always work on this site.
I often see great answers with zero votes that are unaccepted.
This is what tends happens:
- Spend significant amount of time adding an answer
- In comments OP explains what they don’t understand
- Comments or answer is updated, investing more time
- OP may start arguing and does not even engage with new concepts, this is something like Dunning-Kruger effect
- The answerer patiently replies
- This goes back and forth and is never resolved
- Everything fizzles out without any recognition or upvotes
My latest example,
https://physics.stackexchange.com/a/616081/1194
Now, this might not be widespread, it might just happen that I’m interested in topics that attract said people, and that get little traffic.
My questions to everyone are:
- How can we make sure correct and great answers are rewarded rather than getting nothing?
- Is this a problem you encounter?