Re^3: Anonymous Monk Voting/XP

The point I was trying to make, is that your reasoning/motivation for voting on a node should not include whether or not you wish the author of the node to see how nice you were to them, or that you wish to give the author more XP. Whether they get any or not is a random occurence. The motivation should be "Do I think this node is good/useful, should it be seen more proinently by other people" .. etc.

I find I have no shortage of votes, mainly because I only vote when I have a strong positive or negative feeling about a node.. Also I do not read every single node/reply ever written.. Who has the time ?

How do you know other monks won't vote? This is the first time I've heard of people not voting on nodes by AM.

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Re^4: Anonymous Monk Voting/XP by halley (Prior) on Nov 07, 2005 at 17:32 UTC
I don't vote on Anonymous Monk postings: I don't have any filter to show/hide postings which are voted highly or voted down. Without such a mechanism, there's not much value to me personally in voting for/against nodes at all. If I could send all -3 nodes to a virtual oubliette, I'd be quite happy. The votes are more of a feedback mechanism to let authors know if the community finds the node as valuable discussion fodder. The anonymous writer can't see the feedback on their own node, so it does not help encourage anonymous writers to ask good questions nor does it discourage them from writing unresearched junk. (I'm not saying that I vote for things I agree on, and vote down things that I disagree; to me, a ++ is for nodes which aren't a complete waste of everyone's time, even if it's not a perfect answer or a perfect question.) -- `[ e d @ h a l l e y . c c ]`	[reply]
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