"All systems work best with full information, save for those systems that wish to deny the ability of others to...

Actually, dragonchild, though I agree with your observation as a general truth, the current voting system here has the merit of being, IMO, one of several exceptions -- perhaps even the poverbial "exception that proves the rule."

Hiding vote totals until a Monk makes her/his own judgement (except when they're available in best or worst nodes) avoids -- to some extent, the "piling on" or "crowd psychology" phenomonon.

So, when I have votes again, I shall upvote Roy_Johnson's post, not only for its thoughtful presentation and straightforward acknowledgment of many of the negatives voiced on the CB, but also because I see some value for those new to perl and the Monastery in offering a warning that the community concensus on a node is that it's somehow "bad" -- When code is involved, seems to me most often to be the case when that code is ill-considered or even 'flat out wrong.'

Contrarily and sadly, that's clearly not always the case for nodes expressing opinions... be those rehashes of the editor crusades or preferences among modules.

And the preceeding paragraph is a reason my upvote will be for the node; not necessarily for its implementation -- at least, not until we've considered its benefits, costs and debits, and perhaps synthesized an improved proposal.

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