When there is a shortage of votes, which there is undoubtedly is, you must logically prioritize what gets upvoted and downvoted. One of the factors that I take into consideration is the author's anonymity. If the author can't see his nodes reputation, and he has no accountability through user XP, then what motivation do I have to upvote or downvote his node? Whatever motivation you will surely claim I should have, or do have, is further degraded by the fact that I know other Monks won't cast a vote on his node; and, therefore, my vote won't be seen or heard either. Personally, I would rather spend my votes upvoting others, than downvoting Anonymous blather, but my gut feeling tells me I should be able to do both. What I presented was a solution that would allow that.


UPDATE:
I think your all missing the point, and it is *not* that a node authored anonymously *deserves* less xp, It is that in reality it will get less XP, and with good rational reasoning behind that decision.. I have italicized statements in this post, that the followup posts remain completely oblivious too, but rather continue to tout the same mantra. Rather than piping up with the same monotonous replies over and over again, how about we center on the suggestion that would improve the system. Or, how you view it would have negative effects on the system. At best, it would allow more Anonymous Votes to be cast, which we both agree should occur. What I would be expecting to hear, is what more representation on the anonymous nodes would result it.


Evan Carroll
www.EvanCarroll.com

In reply to Re^2: Anonymous Monk Voting/XP by EvanCarroll
in thread Anonymous Monk Voting/XP by EvanCarroll

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