Thought #1 - It might be nice to see a breakdown of the reputation of a 'controversial' node, with both ++ and -- votes (say a node with more than one of both). It's quite likely that such a node merits further discussion :-)

Thought #2 - You can vote on a node, no matter how ancient it is. I suspect people very rarely vote on a node once it gets old. As the reputation of a node may be useful in helping someone searching the archives for an answer to a question, it would be good if the voting system timed out, and you could see the reputation for all nodes over, say, one month old, but no longer vote on them.

Andrew.

In reply to Thoughts on voting and reputations by ahunter

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