Awwww - come on now...if you logged in every day and cast your maximum number of votes, my back-of-an-envelope estimation is nearly 18 months before reaching sainthood. If you're that dedicated, you deserve it anyway - you'll have read a lot of posts and learnt a lot about how the community works.

I cast my allocated votes whenever I'm here because I always feel there are more than enough new posts worth voting upon (and old ones I missed). Even if I personally don't agree with a point / solution, I'm still aware of its validity, and applaud the poster for simply making the effort. I strongly feel that this community is more biased toward the altruistic, rather than simply being an XP fest - I mean, who in the real world *cares* about your sainthood? Maybe I'm being naieve, but it seems to me that most people here contribute in order to help / grow, rather than to influence the standing of their nick.

As to the original question, I tend to see my votes as my $0.00000002 - you vote on what you see - if you miss voting on something 'good', it'll reach its deserved reputation anyway from the other however-many-thousand votes cast that day, so don't sweat :)

Cheers,
Ben

In reply to Re: Re: How do you conserve votes? by benn
in thread How do you conserve votes? by mrpilot

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