The problem with people claiming that XP is irrelevant, is that it isn't...

Notice that I was talking about nodes getting a lot of votes, and I got loads of responses with theme 'Oh, don't care about XP, I don't,'. Recurring theme, and this is relativly humorous illustration to my complaint.

So why do we call the most upvoted nodes "best"? The most usefull and informational node should be there,

And as for - why should I care? - Because I profit from PM, I got a lot of inspiration from some nodes, a lot of solutions to old problems etc... Flooding with offtopic answers makes it hard to find those.

I don't want XP, I want high quality content.

Agreed. I tend to find highly odious this entire phenomenon wherein great scads of people reflexively downvote anything that suggests that XP and node voting have a purpose beyond looking funny. The knee-jerk, pre-programmed "XP is only for fun and not speaking about!" seems somewhat anti-intellectual to me. The "punishment" of people for daring to ask questions about it is bothersome.

Gee, look. I opened my trap and let the terms "XP" and "voting" come out. I'll surely get downvoted. It's absurd that saying anything about XP or node voting other than "Ignore it! I [pretend to|do]!" should so readily and automatically draw the ire of so many unthinking lemmings.

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I tend to find highly odious the phenomenon wherein people make grand claims about the supposed behaviour patterns of others and then regard it as their calling to draw equally broad sweeping conclusions from aforementioned unsubstantiated statements. Are you bitter or something?

Where did you observe this pattern? Many nodes concerned with examining the meaning of XP and the etiquettes associated with voting have gotten high amounts of upvotes. My own top-voted node is among them. I have upvoted many a node talking about XP and I have equally downvoted many a node talking about XP.

I am getting somewhat irritated at the constant barrage of complaints about XP we've had of late, with some people claiming it's all about the XP and others claiming talking about XP automatically invokes a backlash and so on and so forth — but always with the implication that anyone who votes or doesn't vote or upvotes or downvotes or whatever else they may or may not be doing is acting as they do because they are a lemming.

Maybe, just maybe, it could have more to do with the merit of the node in question, and not so much with the species of the voters?

Grow up, people.

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