in reply to Vote lost?

Heh, when I logged in just now I got a "you lost 1 vote" message - not over unusual, but amusing in the context of this thread. After reading the thread I had a look at my recent nodes and noticed that at least the most recent 5 nodes have received at least 1 down vote each since last I logged on so I'd guess either someone has it in for me (paranoid reaction) or someone playing the XP game has realised that downvoting the other players is a good way to get a better relative increase in their own score.

What they probably haven't figured out is that writing good nodes has much more impact on XP and your ranking in the XP game than spending all your votes every day. In the end, while the XP game is fun and I am sure is a large part of why this site is so successfull, quality replies and the helpfull colegial spirit here rise above silly manipulations of the voting system by a few malcontents. Even the very best posts attract down votes.

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Re^2: Vote lost?
by ptum (Priest) on Jun 14, 2006 at 22:01 UTC

    Heh. I'll go one better: with a few notable exceptions, writing ANY kind of node has more positive impact on your XP and ranking in the XP 'game' than spending votes. As a 'player' who has enjoyed the game, I've been occasionally astounded by the (often excessively-so) positive reputation of answers that are irrelevant and even wrong, not to mention the crossposting spammers who cut and paste intelligent-sounding posts (bug reports, poetry, etc.) from other sites and authors, presumably hoping to attract some positive reputation and thus XP. Sometimes I think monks just ++ a node that looks interesting, without stopping to really evaluate it. The vote fairy is too generous ... I know I rarely spend all 20 of my votes.

    But, hey, node reputation is just an imaginary number given by strangers, so I will do well not to brood about it. :)


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      I've been occasionally astounded by the (often excessively-so) positive reputation of answers that are irrelevant and even wrong

      And by the surprinsingly low reputation of very high quality of nodes like this by BrowserUk, only because it's deeply buried in a Re^5.

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      David Serrano

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