The only thing I can think of is that having it there means that a "vote" button click submits something for every node on the page instead of just the ones that will actually do something. I don't suppose filtering out those worthless data makes much difference, but maybe the folks who run the Monastery think differently.

It was suggested in 2003 in Default Null Vote Setting, no one noticed :)

I guess I'm surprised.

I would have thought that "Vote" would *never* enter something for those nodelets that have the "+=0" button selected.

I guess I'm dense, but I don't understand why a "no vote" would result in a vote. Seems wasteful to me.

I guess I'm just not seeing the "big picture."

ack Albuquerque, NM

Thanks.

I'll go right out and set my User Settings.

It's not exactly what I was hoping for. But it'll work.

By the way, oddly, in my anxiousness to vote on some of the excellent replies, I once again accidentally clicked a vote that I didn't intend to make.

Fortunately, some of the other excellent replies gave me a "brute force" approach...click "Back" in my browser and then go back to the page. Of course that meant I had to go back and revote for all the ones I *did* want to vote for.