I've received a few emails over the past few days from various people about the voting issue.

I would like to remind you (in a friendly way ) that voting is just part of the fun of Minti. Do not take it personally if someone has voted you low, medium or high - or no one votes on something you have typed at all.

Voting and ranking is for fun, and not to create huge debates over. Minti is not a popularity contest, always having excellently rated comments or advice, and being in the top 10 of Minti does not mean that you are the number 1 parent out of all parents in the world in real life.

In real life, we all face people who do not like what we say - whether it be our children rebelling against what we are saying, to Politicians who we disagree with what they are saying and doing.

Just like in real life, we are allowed to judge or vote in our minds whether we think what someone is saying is good or bad. For example we tell people to do what X says because it's good, but some people will say that what X says is total rubbish. Some people will be neutral about X's statement.

Let people vote however they want to. Do not be afraid to put up advice, questions, blogs, etc on what you want to say. In the end, if you wrote something and truly believe and act through in what you have written, then that is all that really matters.