I have to agree with merlyn, spending votes just to spend them is not a good use of votes. If anything, a better way to handle unused votes is to allow them to accummulate, but with only (somewhere between 0.33 and 0.5) of them carrying over; eg, if you have 10 votes left over from the previous day, you'd get up to 5 extra votes. Note that at 0.5 carryover, the maximum votes one could get after an indefinite lenght of time would be 2*(number of votes for one day), so this really doesn't out balance anything.

But the fact that this can be done suggests that vroom should modify the code to prevent rapid vote issuing; you need to be able issue votes for nodes within the same thread at the same time, but you shouldn't be able to do votes across threads within a minute or 2 (but then we start running into the /. "whoa cowboy" troll-fest)...

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In reply to Re: Vote bot by Masem
in thread Vote bot by Beatnik

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