Down voting policy for questions: I only consider downvoting questions about mall-ware, spy-ware, and bots: I receive enough spam mail every day as it is, don`t want to help proliferate that. Will consider down-voting mallware related question no matter what the current score is. As far as I`m concerned they can`t get low enough negative scores. Down voting policy for answers: I only consider downvoting answers that I believe are wrong. Corollary: If I`m wrong, feel free the downlote and leave a message . I don`t fight back. It`ll help me fix the answer or delete it if it`s not fixable. I`ve got the Disciplined badge, I have no problem deleting my own answer if you convince me it`s wrong. I never downvote without a comment: I might up-vote an -1 comment and then down-vote the answer, or I might add my own comment including -1 somewhere in the body. The community (and the poster of the answer) need to know why I think the answer`s wrong! ©