Why ask a question in a public forum if you're going to ignore some of the answers?

I prefer to phrase that question as:

If you ask a question in a public forum, and get lots of different answers, how to you decide which are worth pursuing with the limited time and resources that you have?
To my thinking, that mostly means eliminating replies that the community, which I have to assume has more experience (or I wouldn't be asking the question), has judged unworthy.

At low levels, he won't have enough votes in one day to vote on every node attached to many questions. With reply ordering, he doesn't have to spend any votes.

That's a good point. Perhaps reply ordering needs to be either better advertised, or made a useable on a case-by-case basis. The default order of earliest first (or last, but still ordered by time) makes it easy to spot new replies. Ordering by reputation is useful on less frequent occassions. Given the current setup, it's a real nuisance to temporarily view a thread by reputation.

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: A case for neutral votes by dws
in thread A case for neutral votes by dws

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