Anyone else care to comment?

Upvoting

In very general terms here are reasons I feel a node deserves an upvote:

• Interesting well thought out questions that provide an opportunity for the community as a whole to learn or grow from.
• Interesting and well thought out answers to questions or solutions to problems.
• Nodes that contribute something worthwhile to the Perl Monks community

That by no means is a complete one size fits all list.

In general I am more apt to upvote than downvote. For the most part I take the tack that if I have nothing nice to say then why bother. Life is too short.

That doesn't mean I won't downvote a node that sorely deserves it.

Downvoting

Here are a few reasons why I might downvote someone:

• Trollish posts
• Personal attacks
• Flames
• Nodes that are being considered for deletion that truly deserve it.
• Nodes that read like they are meant to hurt, slander, bully, or otherwise are detrimental to the Perl Monks community

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In case you didn't catch it, I use the word "community" here quite a bit. One of the guiding principles of The Monastery is the fact that we are a community not a rabble like some other sites that I won't mention here. A community is supposed to support its members and not tear them down. If you keep that in mind you will have no trouble figuring out what needs upvoting or downvoting.

Another thought: RTFM responses IMHO sometimes deserve an upvote as long as the RTFM is followed by what M to FR.

I am also much more likely to upvote a node over downvoting a node. I'm also more likely to not vote at all on a node that others might be tempted to down vote than down vote it.

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