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Hi Moron,
I have seen the inconsistency as well, your description of the problem is valid and sufficient IMHO.
Other than tye, I see no sense in pointing out specific nodes for this unless you can freeze their votes too, as this can happen to all nodes that get mixed voting.
Having read the docs tye pointed out, I concluded it is on purpose the way it is - deliberately inconsistent by design, introducing the concept of insignificant downvotes - to take the sharp edges from insignificant node tension that could still worry the nodes author too much.

Cheers,
jonix
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Re^2: Error in the reputation breakdown field? (conclusions)
by tye (Sage) on Nov 26, 2005 at 18:25 UTC
    I have seen the inconsistency as well, [...]Having read the docs tye pointed out, I concluded it is on purpose the way it is

    If you mean that you think that showing "-2 (+0 -2)" and then later, due to additional votes, showing "-1 (+0 -1)" is intentional, then you would have misunderstood the documentation that I linked to (and didn't understand my earlier reply in this thread either).

    I think ambrus has hit on the most likely explanation ("stale" browser cache -- a mostly good thing, IMHO, except that sometimes the viewer doesn't recognize that the displayed content is slightly "stale").

    - tye        

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      Yes, "stale" browser cache is a good explanation of the effects actually described by the OP.
      I still think you got me wrong - the inconsistency I was referring to is when node XP goes from "-1 (+0 -1)" to "0" then "1" and that is only inconsistent if you contrast it against plain counting of all up- and downvotes. My fault if I did not state my thoughts clear enough :)
      Inconsistency does not have to be a bug if it is there for a good reason and I think there are enough good reasons around.

      Regards,
      jonix
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