Actually, I'd be more interested in why people vote ++ for some articles (not just mine, but also others). When a node goes below 0, it's usually obvious what's itching the people reading the node. -- votes are not much of a surprise. But it always surprises me when I -- vote an incoherent article, asking how to do something based on a single example, whose answer probably is straight in the manual, the score is already 38 or so.

Or when you spend 30 minutes answering an article, writing test programs, benchmarks, showing alternatives, and only getting a score of 3, while the article you write 5 minutes later, which is nothing more than a quick "I don't really know, but you could try hopping on one foot" gets a score of 45.

It's those 45 ++ votes that I'm curious about.

Abigail

In reply to Tell me the reason of ++ by Abigail-II
in thread /msg me the reason of -- by Jenda

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