Well, there's at least one saint with less than 10 posts.

Good on them - they've obviously been diligently attending the Monastery for well over the aforementioned ( You can do the math yourself I did-ish..) 18 months. Maybe they don't write perl - maybe they don't even program at all - there are many sysadmins / db designers who still contribute here. Maybe they don't feel that their written thoughts are worth sharing - but their opinion as reflected by voting is still important. Maybe they don't care at all about the fact that they've managed to accumulate sainthood over the years...

Voting just because someone made the effort of posting seems silly to me...

You missed my point, I think. I wasn't advocating anything of the sort. Voting is a way of encouraging participation, and hopefully improving the level of debate by indicating what the community finds helpful or not. Personally, I very rarely downvote, prefering reward to punishment (unlike yourself, who I presume was the downvoter of my previous reply, and will undoubtedly be downvoting this one too. If that's your style though, then that's fine...). I upvote nodes that are well written, that contain useful information, and occasionally (Poetry for instance, which I simply love the principle of), like Everest, for just 'being there'.

I don't care much about XP...

You seem to care about other people's though - complaining about saints-who-don't-post and downvoting...maybe you could organise a campaign to downvote all nodes of saints that are 'not worthy' - convince 1000 other monks, and you'll have them back down to initiate in no time.

I understand that it must be nice for you to keep seeing yourself floating at the top of the 'Other Users' nodelet - you contribute extensively, if occasionally negatively, to the Monastery, and you obviously feel justified in your opinion of what a saint 'should be'. For others though, voting may be the most useful contribution they can make on that particular day, and so enjoy just being able to reward others and help them reach *your* dizzy heights :)

Eagerly awaiting your --,
Ben.

PS - I'd upvote your reply simply for being thoughtful and raising the level of debate, but I've already used up today's quota - I'll have to wait until tomorrow now :)
B

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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