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Your proposal suggests that a query with a couple of decent replies and a dozen or so upvotes is not as useful as a query with a dozen votes, with replies that are mostly "Good question" or "Interesting!". The second action dilutes the content of the site, and takes away from the value of the content.

I enjoy reading nodes about all sorts of questions, and if it's something that's really well asked and answered, I'm happy to upvote the nodes. Or if the question is poorly or vaguely worded, but a reply is excellent, I'm happy to upvote the reply.

I use my upvotes to agree with and/or to reward good nodes. I use my downvotes (occasionally) to disagree and/or to punish nodes with no effort. A recent node of mine, "This comment is a complete waste of time", had six upvotes and six downvotes the last time I checked .. that's fine with me. That's the way the site works.

And I disagree with your proposal.

Alex / talexb / Toronto

"Groklaw is the open-source mentality applied to legal research" ~ Linus Torvalds

In reply to Re: Put your mouth where your money is? by talexb
in thread Put your mouth where your money is? by Moron

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