I've always downvoted a lot. There are two voting directions, and one non-vote option in between. For the nodes that I do vote on, I think it is only normal that 50% is down and 50% is up. That is how I would be voting if only there were that many bad nodes. Alas, there aren't :)

I do note an increase of downvotes for my own nodes, but I'm very sure that it is because I care less and less about XP. For some nodes, you can guess that they will be downvoted. I expect this node to be downvoted because of the 50/50 thing. Or maybe not - you people tend to not downvote when a node says anything about that node being downvoted. So now for this node I have no idea in which direction votes will go. Had I not said anything about this note probably being a downvote target, it would certainly have gone very low. Update: Apparently, it's going up.

It would help if you didn't post these good nodes anonymously ;)

By the way, do any of the Saints ever use all their votes? I tried very hard and came around to spending all 40, but usually I don't get much past 20.

Juerd # { site => 'juerd.nl', plp_site => 'plp.juerd.nl', do_not_use => 'spamtrap' }

In reply to Re: Increased number of downvotes at the Monastery? by Juerd
in thread Increased number of downvotes at the Monastery? by Anonymous Monk

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