Having read a reasonable deal of the nodes on down voting (not all of them), I found it still necessary to ask this question. The answers I have found have been stereotypical, yet I see nodes that have none of the criterion most people list are involved with these nodes.

Most, like you have, say that they down vote due to "lack of effort", "abusiveness", or "how OT it is." Yet I see nodes that don't fit any of these criterion lose karma. The lines people draw *do* seem to be hard and fast, in fact- they seem to be extremely concrete. The majority of people use down voting for this meta-moderational purpose, yet I see nodes that are at least pertinent (and not homework assignments) get down voted as well (not to mention nodes that are strong in my opinion.)

Although this node is not original (which does not matter too much to me). I'm much more concerned with what discussion this node elicits, if any. An answer saying "I down vote lewd comments," is obvious, but is there anything that you specifically down vote, because it betrays a pet-peeve, or because of some "more technical" reason?
Gyan Kapur
gyan.kapur@rhhllp.com

In reply to Re: Re: Why - - A Node? by Revelation
in thread Why - - A Node? by Revelation

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