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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nisarg" data-source="post: 2064148" data-attributes="member: 19893">Allow me to elaborate further with a specific example.If an award for artwork had Nobilis on it, I would have to give it an 8 or 9; or Cover Art might even warrant a 10. If it was an overall award, however, I would give Nobilis a 1. I think its a lousy work, filled with disgusting pretentious drivel, horrible structure making it harder to understand than your typical calculus textbook, sloppy editing, terrible prose, an abhorrent game system, and it may have given my cat syphilis.Therefore I give it a 1.  You, in your infinite wisdom of judging me of "falsely" giving a 1, are really just imposing your opinion that Nobilis "isn't actually all that bad" on my vote. I KNOW there are people who think Nobilis isn't all that bad; let them give it a 3, or 5, or 10, or whatever they want to. TO ME, for reasons I justify within myself, Nobilis IS that bad, and merits the 1. I'm not giving it the 1 to help some other item 1, I'm giving it the 1 because I despise it as a work, intellectually and emotionally, and this is my way of defecating on it and all it stands for.Its hate-based voting at its finest.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /> Now, you're saying that if I happen to give Nobilis a 1 and some other truly excellent product (let's say Amber) that happened to be in the same category (let's say "best diceless game of all time") a 10, you will annul my vote. Even though I LEGITIMATELY feel Nobilis deserves a 1 and Amber a 10.  My giving Nobilis the 1 has nothing to do with my giving Amber the 10, I gave each that because of how I really feel about them. Now, I know you said you only annulled people gave a single 10 and all the rest 1s, but that could also conceivably happen, particularly in my case it could happen in the example I used, as NONE of the diceless games I know of are any good at all with the exception of Amber, which is excellent. So in that category, I would have all 1s in every other entry I knew. So unless by a stroke of luck there was an item I didn't know and marked N/A, you would have annulled my LEGITIMATE vote because of your perceptions about how I voted the 1. As soon as you start being the judge of how you imagine people's thought-processes were running when they voted, you enter into slippery-slope territory. What if someone gives a 1 to a product you happen to hate, will you then be as quick to judge their vote "unjustified"?  At least to some extent, then, it all turns into being about what you personally believe a product merits or doesn't merit.Nisarg</blockquote>

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