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I think you'd be surprised by how honestly I vote. I'm not saying I don't save up a few ones for people I dislike here but, more often than not, my votes aren't based on how other people voted. There just is, in fact, an inverse correlation between the crap that is sure to do well here and my tolerance level for crap. There have been very few times that I watched a site, chuckled or somehow otherwise appreciated it, and then voted 1 or 2. The problem really stems from the fact that, given the way the rating system works, every fucking site that isn't an outright 1 lately, winds up with a 4.43 on the front page for a day because everyone else who voted even semi-honestly in the past is gone--or suddenly 5ing crap ironically or whatever that trip is about. The fact is, a lot of shitty songs are popular, a lot of shitty movies have won major awards, and a lot of shitty, shitty sites get high scores. The question is which users left here have the self-critical integrity to know that, deep down, they:

- make crap regularly
- make crap occasionally
- made something good once but now vainly repeat the general idea to increasingly crappy returns
- have no business being near a computer, ever.

The utter cynicism on my part comes from the law of diminished returns punching a giant, humor and creativity sucking hole through the point in the internet where once, at least in some semi-respectable percentage, ytmnd used to exist.
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