If I could vote +=2 for the above post, I would. Could we make that an option in order to further demonstrate exaggerated appreciation for certain contributive efforts to our mostly wonderful (and harmless) community? I'd like to be able to vote ++ for almost everything that I agree with (to the extent of my current knowledge which is the best I can possibly do)... sometimes I'd vote for a newbie posting a very simple question to encourage further participation... maybe I'd vote for a post that I knew was wrong but had terribly well informed links or was funny or was so incredibly articulate that I just enjoyed rereading it... maybe I was just looking for any radio buttons I could find because I was in a hurry and wanted to gain XP myself.

Are any of these reasons necessarily invalid? I don't think we should be overly concerned with who really votes how until XP determines degrees of power which Monks then use to destroy some of the fabric which makes this a nice place to frequent (like the wealth of helpful && respectful && well-informed posts ... none of which are exclusive). I'm contradicting my own self and even traditional grammatical correctness whence thereforest I didst advocate increasing the potential vote amount for a particularly appreciated post and then simultaneously recommending we temper our concern for the whole voting system (especially being overly critical of other Monk's votes) ... maybe these aren't mutually exclusive either. Voting is a nice way to appreciate fellow Monks and Monkettes as the case may be (<sin/cos>Obviously there are Wonderful Woman Monks now but were women permitted in those old and Dark Days?</sin/cos>) Please excuse me. If someone doesn't like a post, they don't have to vote ++ for it. If they disagree with it or despise it or hate the author or kicked their monitor over when they read