I think the Wikipedia folks are generally right that voting/polling has a poisonous effect on conversation--people get too wrapped up in voting up/down and scor

I think the Wikipedia folks are generally right that voting/polling has a poisonous effect on conversation--people get too wrapped up in voting up/down and score. The most important part is the article content and the substantive conversations that they create. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Polls_are_evil http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Polls_are_evil