As I think I mostly agree with you but my annoying predilection to counterpoint has gotten in the way here, a number of clarifications are in order:

-While you are probably correct that some people don't pay attention to how they vote, I try hard not to be in that group, I often abstain when I am not certain of my vote, and I often vote to "keep" against the flow. I do find it a bit difficult to believe that a majority of people would go to the consideration page only to vote with their eyes closed, but I guess neither of us will ever know for sure.

-I certainly didn't intend to "advocate" any particular voting margin as sufficient condition for deletion, I was simply observing the apparent inconsistency between those votes and the responses in this thread.

-I know the disk space used by reaped nodes isn't important to most (aren't they all kept anyway?), but I my mention of CPU was to address the effort in searching. I didn't suggest reaping 70% or even 1% of the content, as I am quite happy with 99.99% of it as it stands already.

-Getting Super Search to sort by reputation would be great - sign me up!

Finally I do regret my use of the rather sterile term "help database", as I certainly do enjoy many of the completely irrelevant threads that occur here (just the other day I was arguing in the CB that Cheese was a good example of something that should not be reaped due to the amusement it generated, though maybe it's an argument for a cooling-off period on deletions... no, too many trolls in these woods). At the same time, you will be hard pressed to convince me of the short term or long term value of "thank you" nodes (perhaps we can agree to disagree on that small point). I also neglected to cheer loudly for the nodes that seekers post to summarize a thread and explain their eventual solution (summing-up well usually gets ++ from me).

I believe that Nodes to Consider (imperfect though it is) can be a good noise filter if used properly. I hope this node isn't deleted...

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I'd like to be able to assign to an luser

In reply to Re: (tye)Re2: 'Nodes to Consider' vs. Voting: On deleting 'Thank You' nodes by Albannach
in thread 'Nodes to Consider' vs. Voting: On deleting 'Thank You' nodes by johannz

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