There continues to be a lot of discussion about improving overall quality of puzzles on the site. Downvoting a puzzle is a way we can try to mark certain puzzles as low quality until something like a specific close reason comes around. I've been convinced by posts like this that if I care about quality, downvoting is an important way to make an impact.

And now one proposal is to have a specific chat room to discuss low quality puzzles. If that happens, I could easily imagine people bringing up certain puzzles and suggesting to others in chat they should be downvoted. So hence my question:

Is it okay/right/fair/ethical to encourage others to downvote a specific puzzle?

On one hand, there are mediocre puzzles that get lots of upvotes, generally because they make the Hot Network Questions list. Balancing this with some downvotes would at least indicate to the poster that it's not unanimously liked and might reduce its likelihood of staying on HNQ. And there are poor quality puzzles that probably don't get enough seasoned users' eyeballs on them, and thus aren't as downvoted as they should be.

On the other hand, if I were a new user and I saw in chat that people were specifically asking for my puzzle to be downvoted, I'd probably be a bit miffed. Something just feels a little wrong there.

I don't have a strong opinion, but thought that there's real possibility this may start happening and so we might want some thoughts on the record, so a new user has a way to figure out what's going on.

There continues to be a lot of discussion about improving overall quality of puzzles on the site. Downvoting a puzzle is a way we can try to mark certain puzzles as low quality until something like a specific close reason comes around. I've been convinced by posts like this that if I care about quality, downvoting is an important way to make an impact.

And now one proposal is to have a specific chat room to discuss low quality puzzles. If that happens, I could easily imagine people bringing up certain puzzles and suggesting to others in chat they should be downvoted. So hence my question:

Is it okay/right/fair/ethical to encourage others to downvote a specific puzzle?

On one hand, there are mediocre puzzles that get lots of upvotes, generally because they make the Hot Network Questions list. Balancing this with some downvotes would at least indicate to the poster that it's not unanimously liked and might reduce its likelihood of staying on HNQ. And there are poor quality puzzles that probably don't get enough seasoned users' eyeballs on them, and thus aren't as downvoted as they should be.

On the other hand, if I were a new user and I saw in chat that people were specifically asking for my puzzle to be downvoted, I'd probably be a bit miffed. Something just feels a little wrong there.

I don't have a strong opinion, but thought that there's real possibility this may start happening and so we might want some thoughts on the record, so a new user has a way to figure out what's going on.

There continues to be a lot of discussion about improving overall quality of puzzles on the site. Downvoting a puzzle is a way we can try to mark certain puzzles as low quality until something like a specific close reason comes around. I've been convinced by posts like this that if I care about quality, downvoting is an important way to make an impact.

And now one proposal is to have a specific chat room to discuss low quality puzzles. If that happens, I could easily imagine people bringing up certain puzzles and suggesting to others in chat they should be downvoted. So hence my question:

It is okay/right/fair/ethical to encourage others to downvote a specific puzzle?

On one hand, there are mediocre puzzles that get lots of upvotes, generally because they make the Hot Network Questions list. Balancing this with some downvotes would at least indicate to the poster that it's not unanimously liked and might reduce its likelihood of staying on HNQ. And there are poor quality puzzles that probably don't get enough seasoned users' eyeballs on them, and thus aren't as downvoted as they should be.

On the other hand, if I were a new user and I saw in chat that people were specifically asking for my puzzle to be downvoted, I'd probably be a bit miffed. Something just feels a little wrong there.

I don't have a strong opinion, but thought that there's real possibility this may start happening and so we might want some thoughts on the record, so a new user has a way to figure out what's going on.

There continues to be a lot of discussion about improving overall quality of puzzles on the site. Downvoting a puzzle is a way we can try to mark certain puzzles as low quality until something like a specific close reason comes around. I've been convinced by posts like this that if I care about quality, downvoting is an important way to make an impact.

And now one proposal is to have a specific chat room to discuss low quality puzzles. If that happens, I could easily imagine people bringing up certain puzzles and suggesting to others in chat they should be downvoted. So hence my question:

Is it okay/right/fair/ethical to encourage others to downvote a specific puzzle?

On one hand, there are mediocre puzzles that get lots of upvotes, generally because they make the Hot Network Questions list. Balancing this with some downvotes would at least indicate to the poster that it's not unanimously liked and might reduce its likelihood of staying on HNQ. And there are poor quality puzzles that probably don't get enough seasoned users' eyeballs on them, and thus aren't as downvoted as they should be.

On the other hand, if I were a new user and I saw in chat that people were specifically asking for my puzzle to be downvoted, I'd probably be a bit miffed. Something just feels a little wrong there.

I don't have a strong opinion, but thought that there's real possibility this may start happening and so we might want some thoughts on the record, so a new user has a way to figure out what's going on.