Manphin Posted:

Downvoting is so rampant that forums still somehow win by large margins. Probably not because they are better than all the crappy submissions that get downvoted, but because of internet magic.

Hmmm, yes, things have changed a lot since MySpaceTom was needed to get a forum voted in.

I don’t think downvoting is running wild anymore than it ever has, it is and always has been cirgreat timesstantial. I’ve submitted the exact same idea within a week and first time it got hammered off the block in less than 30 minutes. Second time it ended the week getting included in the build. That says nothing about the quality of the idea, perhaps the first round of votes were accurate and the idea didn’t deserve to be considered, but it does say how much impact timing can have. *shrug*