<p>Agreed - so much agreed.</p>

<p>I have put a question about a problem that is taking me one year to solve it. I tried many times to do it by myself, because I don't like to shove it on others, so I did a lot of my own research, even posting partial questions here. Then someone just downvoted it without leaving any notice. So much for my own story, that brought me here.</p>

<p>As someone wrote -  I don't care about points but I do care about bad etiquette. Points don't get me much to my self-esteem, I can't cook them, I can't sell them. But what I care about is that they carry the reputation. The down-or-up points serve as a shortcut for others who look at the long-list of question and consider which question is worth to read. And as I can observe is there are two sets of questions - od great interest with a lot of answers and neglected ones a lot of no-answers. CV is changing over time. I think a few years ago it was easier for intermediates like me to get an answer or even answers. All this was new, the members were few, and there was not so dynamic changing pile of posts every hour. Maybe in 2010 it was easy to catch the attention of the reader. Now I'm all happy when I get a useful comment. Downvoting without any comment is just diminishing my chance that someone will take a look at the question, let alone answer it. </p>

<p>So yes, in 2017 I am 100% for the idea to make explaining why-downvote mandatory. We cannot rely on courtesy of a downvoter and his/her willingness to kindly explain why he/she pressed the downvote button. Let's prevent the downvote button become the Like-button.</p>
