I think you somewhat missed my point... I wasn't voting based on "like/hate." I wanted to see the reputation of the entire thread, just like everyone else here. If I could have cast '0' votes I would have.

Since the only way to uncover a nodes score is to make a value-judgment, I did '--' sierrathedog04 more times than I really wanted to. It wasn't because I "like/hate" him, but because I couldn't bring myself to '++' much of anything in that thread.

In this case, some (if not most) of the votes cast on deeply-nested-nodes weren't really "value judgements" at all. They were simply the result of people wanting to uncover the nodes rep. En masse this caused some unexpected and undesired results.

In reply to Re: Re^2: Attack of the Downvote Bots by Anonymous Monk
in thread Attack of the Downvote Bots by tadman

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