With your proposed solution for the downvote problem, I am concerned that this would discourage people who want to downvote a node for legitimate reasons. Even with the showing of up/down percentages. Does a 86% up vote mean that it has a rep of 4 (5++ and 1--) or 80 (100++ and 20--)?

As for the zero vote, if you're just voting to see someone's rep, should they still get experience? With the case of the zero vote, I will grudingly say yes. Even though the whole purpose of asking users to moderate their peers is being misused (and thus those votes are not deserving of granting experience) not granting experience for zero votes would only lead to monks to continue to vote ++ (or --) to see the rep of a given node.

If someone feels like writing a more complex solution into the everything engine, people who consistently downvote specific monks or who cast a large number of votes in a small timeframe (such a threshhold would need to be determined) could be discouraged. Granted, smarter votebots who just vote at random intervals through the day wouldn't be caught, and it does lead to a huge increase in the amount of information that needs to be tracked.

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