Well, I think, it depends on what I like vs. what someone else likes

What I like is surely what everyone likes...

Easy-to-read content with easy-to-understand questions, information or observations.

A solid block of text with no formatting fails the easy-to-read test. I'll leave others to decide if the content is easy to understand!

Personally, I try to ensure that my own questions and comments are well-formatted and easy to read. I attempt to use clear and relatively straightforward language as I realise that for many contributors here, English is not their first language. I attempt to add meaningful content to the discussions. At times this is difficult as many of the people here are vastly more knowledgeable than me. Most of all, I remember that the Monks who are helping me are doing so out of the goodness of their hearts and that their generosity is extremely valuable to me.

Strangely, the more effort I put into my posts, the more help I get from the Monastery, and the more my XP seems to go up...

In reply to Re^3: Automatic downvote by Bod
in thread Automatic downvote by harangzsolt33

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