Do you vote with any strategy other than a random one? Because, if you do, then you don't act as if node reputation is meaningless.

Before trotting out the tired old accusation of hypocrisy, please review my argument. The reputation of an individual node is almost completely meaningless.

On those rare occasions when I vote (perhaps one vote a week), my strategy is very much like yours. I upvote posts, such as the one by chunlou in this very discussion, that appear near the bottom of the discussion and, as such, are undervalued.

My desire is not to say "This node deserves a 3, while this node should never be more than 1". It's to make a single suggestion as to the relationships between nodes within a discussion for people who have reputation ordering enabled. That's it.

My vote counts for very little in a discussion. That's fine. No one's ever promised that the absolute best, clearest, and most accurate answer will always float to the top, without fail. I distrust any system that tries to make that kind of promise — it's not a promise that can be fulfilled, and I'd much rather say "We have a working system that gives you a very rough guide that may be useful. Take it as a suggestion, but continue to use your brain."

(Okay, there's also downvoting to trigger automatic reaping of nodes that are completely devoid of worthwhile content, but that's a separate issue.)

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

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