I tend to find highly odious the phenomenon wherein people make grand claims about the supposed behaviour patterns of others and then regard it as their calling to draw equally broad sweeping conclusions from aforementioned unsubstantiated statements. Are you bitter or something?

Where did you observe this pattern? Many nodes concerned with examining the meaning of XP and the etiquettes associated with voting have gotten high amounts of upvotes. My own top-voted node is among them. I have upvoted many a node talking about XP and I have equally downvoted many a node talking about XP.

I am getting somewhat irritated at the constant barrage of complaints about XP we've had of late, with some people claiming it's all about the XP and others claiming talking about XP automatically invokes a backlash and so on and so forth — but always with the implication that anyone who votes or doesn't vote or upvotes or downvotes or whatever else they may or may not be doing is acting as they do because they are a lemming.

Maybe, just maybe, it could have more to do with the merit of the node in question, and not so much with the species of the voters?

Grow up, people.

Makeshifts last the longest.

In reply to Re^4: Why do nodes with minimal value get upvoted most? by Aristotle
in thread Why do nodes with minimal value get upvoted most? by Eyck

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