My understanding is that my votes are for what I want to do with them. I almost never use --, and I frequently ++ nodes just because I read them all the way to the bottom. Is that definitely wrong? If a node is incorrect in some way, then people will reply to it. In my mind, the ++ means it was worth reading, not necessarily that it's the right answer. Is that definitely wrong?

Who are the subjective voting police? I think the reputation system indicates something other than correctness. I don't know what it is, but correctness isn't really what it's for. Further, some of my favorite nodes (actually threads) are offtopic arguments between knowledgeable Perl people with very different ideas.

It doesn't make much sense to -- a node when I'm frantically clicking all the way down the thread to see what they say next.

UPDATE: I fail to see why someone upvoting a cut and paste and/or link to docs is somehow invalid. It's their ++ to spend how they will and sometimes the correct answer really is in the documentation. I think some people also -- nodes that could have been solved with super search, something I definitely disagree with, but it's their --, they can spend it how they like. Isn't that the point?

-Paul

In reply to Re: Down-vote Bad, Up-vote Good by jettero
in thread Down-vote Bad, Up-vote Good by lostjimmy

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