No, I did not discuss the 'Answer is wrong' vote from our previous debate, Richard. That is your view. My view is that such a design is broken. You can run a car on two wheels, but that is still the wrong way. All part of a totally separate debate.

I have on at least two occasions seen two people debate on this forum. Both persons having good arguments for their view. One of them having an 'answer is wrong' or similar. Then I have returned to the thread the day after and finds the same thing. The same person have now received yet one more 'answer is wrong' or 'message not useful'. I prefer to not try to locate the debates, since I don't want to imply names. I find it more important to note that it is hard for people to defend themselves from anonymous critique.

But look at this specific thread. The original post contains two questions:
1: So firstly, they mostly operate on 5V right?
2: can you recommend a suitable and reliable supervisor chip for this family?

Do you see a reason for flagging the thread as 'Looks like school work'? Do you see a reason why we should ignore the thread?

For #1, it is not so easy to search for an answer. Locating 100 variants and compute the statistics? But would that statistics be relevant, since the industry is moving towards lower voltages. And how do you count processors that can run use a wide span of voltages. Google is bad at showing what processors that are currently used for new designs, allowing you to deduce what it looks like "today".

#2 is has a different problem. Datasheets will tell how great they all are. But we all know that not all suppliers are 100% truthful when describing their products. Think about your love for Atmel. So there are good reasons for asking the question, and receiving answers to it would not be different from a student trying to call a distributor to get some feedback.

So the question is then: What reason is it to cast a negative vote "Looks like homework" when the first sentence of the post describes the situation? And remember that it is a negative vote. Explicitly shown with a '-' when casting, and with a '-' when browsing. It really takes some form of an agenda to cast that vote.


If they are intended to be seen as comments, then they should not be given a weight of -1, and show up as a negative weight when viewing the recent history for a poster. They represent something completely different from the +/- votes some sites have to the question "was this answer helpful?" A great answer need not be helpful - if you have a bug possibly located in one of 10 places, then 10 people can suggest one place each, but only one catches the correct place. Even if the 9 other suggestions didn't lead to the bug being found, they do not represent bad answers. But the - votes here very much imply a "bad post".