Seriously - what is up with the down voting!?

I find the "voting" mechanism on the DPR fora very lacking in value.

At first when it was implemented I tried to use it in order to filter long threads, but I soon discovered that +/-1's have basically no relation to the content value of the post. They are given - at best! - based on a personal opinion of the master post / current post. But I think that it would be just as easy to explain them based on the weather or the level of boredom at work. And this is very unfortunate.

I also found it disturbing that I am so well trained by social networks that on a photography forum I tend to filter posts based on other peoples' opinion...

My suggestion is to (try to) ignore the votes, and hope that with time people will get bored by this new toy, or use the "power" of voting only in specific cases.

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