As I am quite sure I haven't explored the entire site yet, my comments may already be implemented. If so, advance apologies for needless blathering.

A recent discussion mentioned people giving out minus votes without saying why they were doing so. If there is a simple way to make a comment related to your plus or minus vote I haven't noticed it. I don't mean replying to the posting, as what you say might be off-topic.

For example, if person A asks about interfacing with a relational database, and person B responds with detailed descriptions of how to do it in MySQL, I might want to at least mention to person B, even if I don't vote about it, that in the spirit of multiple ways of doing things, it would be nice to at least make passing mention of other databases.

A comment like this probably doesn't help person A. I'm not sure if it helps person B, either. But I'd rather make my comment and no vote than give person B a silent minus. My reason for considering the information inaccurate is in this case fairly personal.

And if someone thinks that this post sucks and I should lose exp for ever saying anything against MySQL, I'd kind of like to see what's being thought about my post. Is there some way to see how your experience has been acquired (or lost), such as number of points from votes compared to quests compared to logging in?

I would like some way to agree with something that has been stated without making an annoying 'me too' post. Sometimes someone posts something that completely states my opinion (such as with the current guru-exp issue) that I want to express agreement with it. Yes, I can give it a plus vote, but that might also mean that I consider the post well-written, even if I don't agree with it. This might make things too complicated, since it's probably what the voting system was designed to cover, in part. The comments thing would probably take care of this well enough.