in reply to Re^4: To Extend, to Use, to Create
in thread To Extend, to Use, to Create

I agree in the sense that we don't want to mold people into "me too" voting. But I can see virtue in encouraging people to be a little more considered in their voting. I suspect the up votes marto was highlighting were just fly by voting to use up today's quota and garner whatever XP might be available in doing so. I guess most of us have done that at times, but the quality of the site is much improved if people are encouraged take a little more time to read and understand nodes before voting. It kind of goes hand in hand with writing good questions and good answers.

Optimising for fewest key strokes only makes sense transmitting to Pluto or beyond

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Re^6: To Extend, to Use, to Create
by syphilis (Archbishop) on Dec 09, 2020 at 11:08 UTC
    But I can see virtue in encouraging people to be a little more considered in their voting

    At that point I realized that I had no idea what the perlmonks rules (regarding voting) actually are.
    Are there any ? If so, where ? (I should probably read them ;-)

    I had assumed that we were free to vote as we liked - for whatever reason, or even without any reason whatsoever.
    I do recall seeing something about losing some XP if one persistently downvoted a specific monk (or specific monks).
    However, things that I've seen in the last few days lead to me deduce that repeated down voting of Anonymous Monk will incur no such penalty ??
    And that is about the sum of my knowledge on this matter .... sad, but true.

    Cheers,
    Rob
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