Once upon a time, we had forty votes that all counted the same, so effectively I could just click away--which I often did without even reading the post (some people I knew I'd love their content anyway, and others, I just clicked because it was easy). Since voting power didn't decline for a really long time, that was fine.

Now, though, voting power declines almost immediately. This shouldn't matter--my vote is now worth something like thirty times what it was--but that somehow makes me want to conserve my clicks, almost as if I got to KEEP that money if I didn't click on anything. Which is stupid. But there you are.

I thank you for the reminder that my votes don't count for anything if I don't use them.