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the node's votes can help that person decide which solution is the most favoured (but not necessarily the best)

The only problem is that you have to make up your mind whether you think it's a good or bad solution (cast a vote) before you get to see what people voted before you...

Sometimes I see two nodes on a subject in which I have no or very little competence and can't judge which other people with presumably more knowledge has considered the better answer. I resists to upvote/downvote as I just don't know if they're good or bad. I could mindlessly just upvote both, but that doesn't seem satisfactory.

I'd like it if there was a way to see how people voted on a node. I assume there are good reasons for not displaying the reputation of a status before voting, I can guess a few myself. But what if the null vote really was a vote so that you voted but didn't change the reputation (and would have no chance of getting more XP from casting it)? The vote wouldn't even have to "cost" exactly one vote either.

ihb

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In reply to Re^3: What's wrong with -1? by ihb
in thread Newbies and votes by kiat

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