Agreed Abigail, if every vote is cast well and in good faith, there is nothing wrong with 50% up and 50% down, or whatever the odd ratio is that happens. And since everyone thinks differently, the upvotes and downvotes will all balance out in the long run. Not having a set procedure, and leaving fickle humans in control, is perfectly fine.

But seriously, why do we care about XP past level 5 (home node pic) anyway? It's meaningless. Let's not talk about the sports forum where I led total posts for like 3 years ... again, I don't have that title now, but when I did I wanted to get rid of it. It made me stand out like sort of message board geek (which I am, BTW, but ah well) ...