A vote unspent is a vote wasted. :)

The voting system is to engender high quality posts. Voting endevors to do this in a number of ways by:

• rewarding posters with warm fuzzies who see their post receiving comendations from their peers
• indicating to others who visit the site what is required to gain recognition by other users
• indicating inappropriate replies and behaviour

So, how does any of that affect Anonymous Monk? Well, it doesn't directly. But if Anonymous Monk posts something really good then it will appear in the Best Nodes list. In addition the voting on Anonymous Monk's posts still indicates to others what constitutes a good or bad post.

Your Anonymous Monk vote is not wasted. Indeed, just by casting it you are participating in the site (and for that there are rewards too) and by being involved are making the site work better.

I tend to follow this approach as well. I tend to read posts and mark votes without noting whether they are anonymous or not -- by votes tend to be more fast-twitch than studied. (I actually use some CSS magic to keep my vote button floating in the upper left corner so I never have to scroll to look for it.)

That said, sometimes I upvote for quirky reasons not related to the quality of the response -- if someone phrased something particularly well or took a stand on something that might be risking some downvotes. In those cases, my upvotes tend to be more personal -- a shortcut to writing a kudos note in the chatterbox. I don't usually give those kinds of upvotes for AM posts.

-xdg

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You should vote as you see fit. I tend to not vote on what the AM posts. There are times when I do.

The one thing to remember is when you get down to it, the amount of positive votes mean nothing. I have a few thousand and there are people with much less that probably code far better then me.

I can tell you the chicks don't find me hotter when I tell them I am Priest on PerlMonks. :p

I can tell you the chicks don't find me hotter when I tell them I am Priest on PerlMonks.

Untill of course they find out that our Priests did not take a vow of celibacy!

CountZero

"If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler." - Conway's Law

A good post is a good post regardless of author, so I upvote anonymonk posts quite regularly.

Good point; the votes are for the article (ideally), not for the person who wrote it. If it's a good article - informative, or thought-provoking, well written, etc. - then an upvote is a way of letting others know it.

• very, very wrong
• or... a very good contribution

See Re^3: Anonymous Monk Voting/XP.

During my stint as an "Anonymous Monk", I checked the node's reputation on the Recently Active Threads page. I assumed the reputation displayed there was intentional (or was I misreading the numbers there)?

All right, too silly. Time for bed.
-a

Hello Monks, I am sorry to say that i don`t know any thing about this voting or the ++ or -- what is all that .


If you want to know what its all about check out Voting/Experience System and join in on the voting because as you say its a learning community and ++ should be given when you learned from others advice/wisdom.


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