If you have the desire to vote on more nodes than you have votes available, then it makes sense to me to save votes for those who will appreciate them more. I don't mind at all if you don't upvote a node of mine in order to have votes for someone more "in need".

I predict that eventually you'll get to where you often don't feel a shortage of votes and maybe you'll upvote me some then. (:

While I agree that voting solely based on author is a very bad idea, I think that taking aspects of the author into consideration when voting is perfectly valid.

        - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")