Strictly speaking, there are three possible votes: +1, -1, and abstain. I almost never down-vote a node, but I often don't up-vote a node that I just read. Disapproval by silence, if you will.

I spend up-votes on nodes that surprise me, amuse me, or generate a healthy discussion. I front-page a node if it has an 'interesting' point to make; or talks about a technology that I am interested in.

Otherwise, I read the Newest Nodes for a couple of hours daily (in dribs and drabs spread over a ten to twelve hour period) and I try to expend all of my votes before I am done. I have a couple of favorite authors that I read everything they write (as well as a couple or three folks that I ignore on principal); to that extent we are in collusion.

Folks conspiring to up-vote on each other's nodes don't bother me that much. XP is merely an artifact of the Monastery - it's not like I can convert 1,000XP into fifteen Quatloo's or three Euro's or something. There will always be folks trying to 'game the system' for what ever reason. Over time, their efforts will wash out into the Noise, and they will go away once they get tired of their silly game. As an example of something that I don't think will droip into the noise-band, I give you Abigail-II; I am still reading through his/her corpus and learning new techniques and ways of looking at Perl.

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I Go Back to Sleep, Now.

OGB

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

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