By the way, do any of the Saints ever use all their votes? I tried very hard and came around to spending all 40, but usually I don't get much past 20.

I guess my average is about 4 or 5 votes a day. Today, I haven't voted once. But when I do vote, it's more often down than up. I downvote FAQs, off-topic issues, badly phrased or formatted questions, replies that don't answer the question being asked, wrong answers, people asking to be spoonfed and whiners. That is, if I bother to vote, which I usually don't. Sometimes, I downvote an entire (sub-)thread, for instance if it's off-topic, or when it's answering FAQs in an inferiour way. And I guess about a quarter of my votes is random - the only reason I vote is because I'm interested to know what the tally is.

Abigail