I do agree it gets more attention. Negative attention actually. I was thinking about this yesterday. They’ll start talking about a submission and usually it’ll get downvotes just for the hell of it.

For example: Take Delusions of Grandeur (I know, I’m talking about one now). There was a post made recently about how it got a lot of votes up. The next day it’s got a lot more attention… more negative than positive. It pretty much kills that chance.

I’ve seen this happen a lot. There are problem with forumbuildr and… unfrotunately at the current time there is no fix. This is what happens with user submitted content.