I didn't plan to participate to Health, initially. I did because First Aid was closed on Area51 while first aid was declared a valid subject for Health. So I came here a little bit "by default", and I must say I had a good suprise:

• I found interesting questions that I wouldn't have thought about and that interested me as much as the answers they received (those that are documented, elaborated, so helpful),
• I asked a few questions, and one of them received a very valuable answer. I am therefore confident for the two others,
• And I could see that first aid, the subject that made me come here, is also active. Not very, but reasonably let's say. Enough to make me confident.

The first point is from far the most important. The idea is to have Q/A useful for the whole community, this is where the value of a SE site actually resides.

This good surprise came with a bad suprise though. The community. It's a little bit as if voting down with no explanation was a national sport here. I've seen several questions harshly voted down today while they are actually valid and can receive excellent answers. One of them voted below zero just received a brilliant and documented answer a few minutes ago. I don't understand that. A bunch of users afraid of questions  ? Or vandalism  ?

The same issue happens with answers. -4 is a good average here, you're only rated 'dumb' at -10.

I think this behaviour is not prone to encourage people to ask and answer, even if they have actually valuable things to ask and knowledge to answer. It is more prone to lead users to find other sources of information.

All this being said, this is way too early to come to a conclusion. This is only the beginning of the day 2, and a couple of days is roughly nothing.

I didn't plan to participate to Health, initially. I did because First Aid was closed on Area51 while first aid was declared a valid subject for Health. So I came here a little bit "by default", and I must say I had a good suprise:

• I found interesting questions that I wouldn't have thought about and that interested me as much as the answers they received (those that are documented, elaborated, so helpful),
• I asked a few questions, and one of them received a very valuable answer. I am therefore confident for the two others,
• And I could see that first aid, the subject that made me come here, is also active. Not very, but reasonably let's say. Enough to make me confident.

The first point is from far the most important. The idea is to have Q/A useful for the whole community, this is where the value of a SE site actually resides.

This good surprise came with a bad suprise though. The community. It's a little bit as if voting down with no explanation was a national sport here. I've seen several questions harshly voted down today while they are actually valid and can receive excellent answers. One of them voted below zero just received a brilliant and documented answer a few minutes ago. I don't understand that. A bunch of users afraid of questions? Or vandalism? The same issue happens with answers, in a lesser extent.

I think this behaviour is not prone to encourage people to ask and answer, even if they have actually valuable things to ask and knowledge to answer. It is more prone to lead users to find other sources of information.

All this being said, it is way too early to come to a conclusion. This is only the beginning of the day 2, and a couple of days is roughly nothing.

I didn't plan to participate to Health, initially. I did because First Aid was closed on Area51 while first aid was declared a valid subject for Health. So I came here a little bit "by default", and I must say I had a good suprise:

• I found interesting questions that I wouldn't have thought about and that interested me as much as the answers they received,
• I asked a few questions, and one of them received a very valuable answer. I am therefore confident for the two others,
• And I could see that first aid, the subject that made me come here, is also active. Not very, but reasonably let's say. Enough to make me confident.

This good surprise came with a bad suprise though. The community. It's a little bit as if voting down with no explanation was a national sport here. I've seen several questions harshly voted down today while they are actually valid and can receive excellent answers. One of them voted below zero just received a brilliant and documented answer a few minutes ago. I don't understand that. A bunch of users afraid of questions ? Or vandalism ?

The same issue happens with answers. -4 is a good average here, you're only rated 'dumb' at -10.

I think this behaviour is not prone to encourage people to ask and answer, even if they have actually valuable things to ask and knowledge to answer. It is more prone to lead users to find other sources of information.

All this being said, this is way too early to come to a conclusion. This is only the beginning of the day 2, and a couple of days is roughly nothing.

I didn't plan to participate to Health, initially. I did because First Aid was closed on Area51 while first aid was declared a valid subject for Health. So I came here a little bit "by default", and I must say I had a good suprise:

• I found interesting questions that I wouldn't have thought about and that interested me as much as the answers they received (those that are documented, elaborated, so helpful),
• I asked a few questions, and one of them received a very valuable answer. I am therefore confident for the two others,
• And I could see that first aid, the subject that made me come here, is also active. Not very, but reasonably let's say. Enough to make me confident.

The first point is from far the most important. The idea is to have Q/A useful for the whole community, this is where the value of a SE site actually resides.

This good surprise came with a bad suprise though. The community. It's a little bit as if voting down with no explanation was a national sport here. I've seen several questions harshly voted down today while they are actually valid and can receive excellent answers. One of them voted below zero just received a brilliant and documented answer a few minutes ago. I don't understand that. A bunch of users afraid of questions ? Or vandalism ?

The same issue happens with answers. -4 is a good average here, you're only rated 'dumb' at -10.

I think this behaviour is not prone to encourage people to ask and answer, even if they have actually valuable things to ask and knowledge to answer. It is more prone to lead users to find other sources of information.

All this being said, this is way too early to come to a conclusion. This is only the beginning of the day 2, and a couple of days is roughly nothing.