> As long as you don't write total nonsense, it doesn't matter what quality your answers are, because people will upvote moderately good answers the same as very goos answers. There are no double or triple upvotes.

Exactly this lack of double or triple upvotes makes the system favoring mediocre posts.

In the first 4 years here I restricted my votes to nodes I considered excellent. The system punished me b/c I didn't exhaust my quota.

But today even after I started to upvote even moderately good answers I mostly finish the day with 20 votes left. I know that others (e.g. choroba) have similar problems.

I would love to have the opportunity to give 5 upvotes for excellent elaborated posts even if I lost XP in exchange.

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