I can only suppose that more than one person had this strategy, because there is a very specific trend occuring here. "Blind downvoting" or "personality voting" as merlyn would put it, is, in my opinion, inconsiderate. The entire idea behind the votes is with respect to the post, not the poster.

While the entire thread was off-topic to begin with, a relatively harmless post Re: Re: Re: Omigawd! Surprised by Reality! for example, is sent down to -18, and a straightforward follow-up Re: Just a thought... is hammered down to -15. These are posts that are many levels deep, a depth at which you might expect to see no more than 10 votes cast in as many months. It would seem that people deliberately sought out these posts and downvoted them. Not especially nice, is it?

Even a, to put it politely, tactfully lacking individual such as pokemonk, who certainly keeps NodeReaper busy some days, is hard pressed to achieve these depths.

One conclusion that I can draw from this is that many people use their votes as "I agree/I disagree", or even "I like them/I hate them" instead of "good post/bad post", which is how I try to use them.

I really hope people try and be more objective in the future. Chewing up and spitting out members is not going to help anyone.

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