...oh, don't do that Abigail, (delete I mean) because the presence of information (even if it's bad news) still contributes to the whole body of knowledge.

The anti-motivational poster says, "It could be that the purpose of your life is merely to serve as a warning to others."

I'm not actually suggesting that in this case, but it is instructive to see nodes that were unpopular. This serves as a marker at one end of the continuum just as a highly popular nodes mark the other end. And it might be that over time, others who drop by will like what you wrote and upvote it.

My best guess is that we shouldn't worry too much about how our nodes get voted, we should just move on and write the next thing. It all averages itself out in the end. (I believe that, but people sometimes call me an optimist.)

I should point out though, that there is the possibility that if you delete content from an unpopular node, it reduces the possibility that the node will continue to collect down votes. So factor that in to your thoughts as well.

No matter what though, keep posting. As someone pointed out recently, "It's all good, except when it sucks."

---v