Agreed. I tend to find highly odious this entire phenomenon wherein great scads of people reflexively downvote anything that suggests that XP and node voting have a purpose beyond looking funny. The knee-jerk, pre-programmed "XP is only for fun and not speaking about!" seems somewhat anti-intellectual to me. The "punishment" of people for daring to ask questions about it is bothersome.

Gee, look. I opened my trap and let the terms "XP" and "voting" come out. I'll surely get downvoted. It's absurd that saying anything about XP or node voting other than "Ignore it! I [pretend to|do]!" should so readily and automatically draw the ire of so many unthinking lemmings.

print substr("Just another Perl hacker", 0, -2);
 - apotheon
CopyWrite Chad Perrin

PS: Merry Chrismahanukwanzaaka, Solstice, Festivus, Yule, Feast of Fools, or whatever.

In reply to Re^3: Why do nodes with minimal value get upvoted most? by apotheon
in thread Why do nodes with minimal value get upvoted most? by Eyck

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