As a serious comment, I see some problems with vote-carry-over. And I conclude that unused votes should carryover, but be SUBTRACTED from your next day's total available. This would encourage using them.

Carry with addition has problems:

1. It encourages laziness in voting. I takes a bit of time and effort to vote on a node, and knowing that your votes will carry over, is one more impetus to be lazy, and vote tommorrow. Which of course, gets delayed again tommorrow.

2. What happens when the carryover total starts reaching huge numbers, for the laziest of monks. When you login you will see "You have 12,334 votes left today. :-) It would tend to make voting seem more worthless, by inflating the votes available. Sort of XP inflation. It would also screw up the vote allowance heirarchy set by monk level. "You mean that that lowly friar has more votes to give than me today?....outrageous!"

3. In order to encourage monks to use all their daily votes, maybe you should DEDUCT unused votes from the monk's next day available votes. Use em or lose em.

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In reply to Re: Leftover votes: wild suggestion / feature request(s) by zentara
in thread Leftover votes: wild suggestion / feature request(s) by blazar

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