Fair enough. I'm not exactly an old hat myself. My account's less than a year old so maybe I'm totally off on this and it's me who should keep my mouth shut and

Fair enough. I'm not exactly an old hat myself. My account's less than a year old so maybe I'm totally off on this and it's me who should keep my mouth shut and learn a bit more. That said, I still think there's enough people who are karma police in that they hoard points and use the up/down vote system in not-so-honorable ways to merit some discussion about that. I also think there's enough group-think going on to merit mentioning too. I'll admit my example wasn't really solid but, hey, now that I said it maybe you'll be able to spot it next time and be able to come back and say I was right. Or wrong. But I'm decently confident it's prevalent enough to spot easily and quickly.