Re: Wise Voting

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.

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Re^2: Wise Voting by xdg (Monsignor) on May 28, 2006 at 02:47 UTC
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 Code written by xdg and posted on PerlMonks is public domain. It is provided as is with no warranties, express or implied, of any kind. Posted code may not have been tested. Use of posted code is at your own risk.	[reply]

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Re^2: Wise Voting
by xdg (Monsignor) on May 28, 2006 at 02:47 UTC

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

Code written by xdg and posted on PerlMonks is public domain. It is provided as is with no warranties, express or implied, of any kind. Posted code may not have been tested. Use of posted code is at your own risk.

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