Thanks for the reminder that node reps & XP are not the same beast. For me, that was my hangup. Since I have a limited number of votes, I wanted to make sure they went to best use. Your perspective is right on. The purpose of votes is to show what nodes are the best. If a monk happens to get XP from their node's reps, then more power to them for good nodes.

And on a related note, I had completely forgotten about the Best Nodes node. Can we get this a little more prominently displayed somewhere? Perhaps the leftovers nodelet is a good place.