Some of you guys are missing the point. I don't think anyone here is so fragile that they can't deal with criticism.

I think that all LightWolf is asking here, is to just put an end to drive by negs. It is one thing to present an opposing viewpoint, but to go around mindlessly slapping a neg on every post in sight, without ever taking the time to present even the slightest argument, is completely useless. I am guilty myself of an occassional driveby, especially on spam posts, but I have never see more done it without at least reading the post first. For those of you that aren't aware of it, you can click on the 'positive votes' and 'negative votes' links in the upper left part of every blog page and investigate this driveby phenomena yourselves. There's a pattern... trust me.

Personally, I don't think there's anything wrong with having a voting system on blog posts, but it needs to be fair. I think this one is fixable, but it's not going to get fixed by ignoring it or just telling people not to get mad over negative votes. Negative votes isn't really what this is about. The sooner everybody recognizes that, the sooner we can go about getting it fixed.