• ++ good questions and answers
• -- dumb questions and answers
• ++ anything that makes me laugh
• ++ Merlyn/favourite monk
• -- (insert monk) who I suspect downvoted me
• ++ coolness factor
• I vote by best/worst nodes
• random browse-by voting
• who cares I vote for the XP
• ++ CowboyNeal

update: I thought of another one-

my favourite section of the monastry is:

--
my $chainsaw = 'Perl';