[tedmiston]

This is what Stack Overflow does. Since it "hurts" their own karma, people downvote less. One implication of that is that when threads stay at zero, it can be hard to differentiate the reason why. Sometimes it's just that the question is well written but obscure.

[NeutronBoy]

> Since it "hurts" their own karma, people downvote less.

Yes, so they just vote to close the question instead.

[yanjuk]

>This is what Stack Overflow does.

Thanks. Didn't know that.

>Sometimes it's just that the question is well written but obscure.

Could be that people regard the question as dishonourable.