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Re: Re: How do you conserve votes?

by agentv (Friar)
on Apr 24, 2003 at 13:50 UTC ( [id://252894]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: How do you conserve votes?
in thread How do you conserve votes?

> You'll get more as you are promoted and you'll still run out occasionally.

I agree with this. The main thing is just to be patient. It isn't long (if you're diligent) until you have more votes than you can use each day unless you spend most of your day on the site.

But definitely don't be discouraged by the "XP don't mean $4!t" folks. Some of us post, and some of us vote, and some of us do both. For myself, I don't have time every day to create a well-considered post. This one will take about 5-15 minutes, and sometimes a good post might take 45 minutes to an hour. I don't always have that sort of time to invest here.

On the other hand, the voting system incents me to drop in regularly and participate in the site by rewarding good posts with my up vote. That is not only a valid form of participation, but it also increases the value of the site in a way that is both subtle (considering the number of people who overlook, or loudly decry the value of the activity) and somewhat unique.

Search engines only do part of the job of classifying information seen on the web. It is the interaction of interested human beings that further classifies and organizes the information into useful forms. At (what is no longer) the leading edge of research into this field, the behavior of the observers of the web becomes part of the content and determines some of its organization.

Almost everyone who participates here sees this site differently, and sees different parts of it. Some days I read from the Monastary Gates, some times I read from the Newest Posts page, and sometimes I just find someone who has said something interesting and follow their home node to the archive of their past posts. Someone else may choose one day to visit nodes on the basis of their stature. It all works, and part of what makes that true is the critical mass we have for a population, and the consistent participation by many folks.

So keep voting, be patient and you will soon have more votes, and if you make "Saint" simply by voting, then you have contributed something useful to the community here. (While it is possible to "cheat" the system, such cheaters stand out among their "peers," and that in no way renders the exercise meaningless. It simply shows that the status can be reached artificially. Most of us can easily tell the difference.)

...All the world looks like -well- all the world, when your hammer is Perl.
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