Re^10: We should elminate: Anonymous, and DOWN-voting

[Anonymous Monk]

That depends very much how recently you joined prior to causing someone to have a voting vendetta against you. If you don't have a lot of points and your up against someone who does you've got no chance.

No, that is complete and utter nonsense, the math just doesn't add up. See Voting/Experience System

For practicaly demonstration visit Worst Nodes. Some posters would end up there every day, and most of them still maintained a positive reputation. It takes a special brand of troll to remain in negative digits.

[Anonymous Monk]

Like for instance a troll who won't be told he's wrong when actually he isn't?

[TJPride]

Where exactly did you study math? Even a relatively low-level monk - let's say level 8 - has over a dozen votes per day. If you make less posts than he has votes, he can downvote every single thing you post, and given that your average post rating even if you post relatively good stuff is often low (mine is slightly over 4, even excluding this thread), he can kill as much as a quarter of your rating just by himself. And he'll get rewarded for doing it. It's just extremely annoying to be on the receiving end and be told the mods know who it is but won't tell you or do anything about it.

For the same reason, I think anonymous posting should be eliminated. People troll anonymously whenever it's a topic they think will risk their precious rating, then use their account to downvote anyone who disagrees with them.

[Anonymous Monk]

he can kill as much as a quarter of your rating just by himself. And he'll get rewarded for doing it.

The documentation contradicts you

For voting positively, your run the risk of gaining XP

For voting negatively, you run the risk of losing XP

You never gain XP for voting negatively

Less babel, more RTFM

[Anonymous Monk]

When in Rome...