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. :)