meeeeeeeeee Posted:

Haven’t voted in a while and my voting ratio seems to change on its own. Perhaps it’s only calculated on most recent votes, and older votes drop off the list.

Even if I don’t participate in buildr, I can still form opinions on it based on observation of both the process and the results. Why do I have to participate in a road crash to be able to call it a road crash?

By voting, you affect the outcome. If you don’t like the outcome but didn’t bother to put your vote in to do anything about it and haven’t the motivation or creativity to think of better ideas, you’re pointlessly whining about it. You’d really rather the admins spend their time choosing winners on their own or select a cabal of “editors” to do it for them? Sounds like a nightmare. A truly democratic process isn’t necessarily going to select the absolute best idea, but it does get rid of the very worst ones, is more able to be automated than other selection methods, and is less open for abuse or need of maintenance and attention than some small group of editors.