Dear Yuan-Yeu Yau, thank you for your response. I agree with you. We are here to learn from everybody even from down-voter. Your suggestion is nice.

I agree with you. If one gets a down vote, the person should get a reply (a message for the reason of down-vote) from the giver (they don't have to show their names). Sometimes, they may be wrong for the specific concept. From bi-directional communications and discussion, it will benefit both parties. It will be nice that the RG can give such a feature that when a person votes 'down', a space next to it will pop out and let the person describe why they don't like the answer.

Dear Yuan-Yeu Yau, thank you for your response. I agree with you. We are here to learn from everybody even from down-voter. Your suggestion is nice.

An unpleasant feeling

Being  downvoted for no reason is like an academic crime! It would be nice if the field explanation would exist for downvoted answers, even anonymous!

My dear friends, here is what RG brings about this issue: "Upvoting and downvoting questions or answers in Q&A is a way to promote high-quality contributions to the rest of the community – it also provides valuable feedback for the author. When you upvote a question or answer, we’ll let the author know. In the case of answers, those with a lot of upvotes will be marked as Popular answers. Instead of downvoting commercial content, offensive posts, or spam, please Flag it to bring it to our attention." Many people does no respect this!

As I was present in some similar threads about the downvoting, I am free to attach links to these related questions!

https://explore.researchgate.net/display/support/Following+questions

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Do_you_think_that_the_features_upvoting_and_downvoting_introduced_by_RG_are_used_rationally

https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_is_your_opinion_about_the_anonymity_of_the_downvoting_Is_it_a_good_idea_to_be_judged_on_votes_that_might_be_fully_unqualified

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Whats_Your_Opinion_on_Upvote_and_Downvote

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Social_media_Downvoting_and_degrading_in_social_networks-What_are_the_reasons-What_are_the_reactions

Dear Mohammed,

Very good question and point. I personally believe in constructive approaches in every situation. What defines if the answer is correct or not? Maybe the person is thinking of something totally new and nobody has heard of it. Maybe the person is discussing his own perspective of the question. 

I am not sure if the vote down is a constructive tool and I totally agree that there should be a feed back. 

I can see the idea of RG developers that voting down an answer so that people know it is not useful and/or do not follow that advice in the answer .. etc

However, if it was up to me, I would have removed the vote down and replaced it with a private/public comment. Also, when an answer receives more than one comment then it can become a question and a discussion topic by itself. 

The goal after all is to encourage people to talk and share ideas not discourage them.

Thanks for your question.

Dear Mohammod,

Excellent question and the responses.

I fully agree that in a diverse research community with multi disciplinary approach each and everyone has their valued points to agree and/or disagree to a question and the manner of the replies.

Constructive criticism is better than silently voting down fellow researchers who do their best to collaborate in their disciplines. 

If the RG up vote is notified I imagine there should be some mechanism to know how and why the researchers are down voted too.

Thanks for raising such a question.

I strongly agree with you Vidhura. Constructive criticism is much useful than just give a downvote for a post. Either party can benefit from their dialogue (constructive criticism). Besides, the person giving downvote may not always correct on a question.