Proper etiquette and timing for voting here on Answers (particularly down-voting)?

[woodcock]

I am having a disagreement^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^ side-discussion with @lguinn and @aljohnson_splunk (and others?) here:

http://answers.splunk.com/answers/243879/field-extractions-using-regex-not-working.html#comment-2441...

My contention is that we should do as dead people do in Chicago: vote early and often! However I am in the minority of the thread so I thought I would bring the question to a wider audience.

What do you think?

[stephane_cyrill]

I agree with you JEFFLAND. It is a good thing to downvote a misleadind answer, but no need to do it when an answer do not just solve the problem. It is discouraging to be downvote simply because your answer do not solve the problem. If we all see things like woodcok ,It simply mean that answers.splunk.com will become a plateform for those who knows an not for those who want to learn.