As someone who voted for the post, I'm posting here so that you can vote this down as much as you like, which I think addresses the shooting request.

When I vote for a post, I don't always vote for it because I've verified that it is technically correct (in this case, since I haven't dealt with HTML as part of a job for several years, I have not the slightest clue what's correct). Other reasons I vote for a post include 'I agree with what was said' or 'I got something out of the post'. In this case I did get something out of the post. I wrote a note to myself to read up on headers. Because the post I'm replying to includes a link to a tutorial, I'm voting for it (while at the same time, I disagree with part of it, namely that I ought to lose my voting privileges, and that I ought to be literally shot--although I don't have a problem with being shot down in exp by people who agree with meryln).

If there's a problem with why people vote, then perhaps the voting information could more clearly define what acceptable reasons for voting are. Reasons why people vote was discussed in some depth in Yet Another Post on Experience and no official guidelines resulted. Perhaps there should be further discussion and guidelines as a result?

Ps: On the thread of Killing Posts: this is just the reason why posts with a low reputation shouldn't be automatically deleted ;).

In reply to RE(3): querystring updating page??? (kudra: who decides what valid voting reasons are?) by kudra
in thread querystring updating page??? by Anonymous Monk

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