The reason your upvote remained unchanged is that anybody with 10 karma points or less bears no weight on the voting algorithms. I'm experimenting with having

The reason your upvote remained unchanged is that anybody with 10 karma points or less bears no weight on the voting algorithms. I'm experimenting with having higher karma-valued posters have more weight when it comes to voting. Was that you who registered as KMag? You now have 100 karma and your votes will be counted from now on.