This is brilliant and hopefully the end of it.  Afterall it only takes a second to leave your vote after reading a piece of advice.  If there's no time to comment go back and do that at another date. Good job!  Julie.

 

thank you for letting us all know of this and hopefully this will be what stops it from happening from now on,

hugs and kisses

Thanks for letting us know and making us aware of the rules and guidelines. Thanks.

Good Morning (or is it good evening), well I am glad that you recognise that this has become an issue, as I felt compelled to remove most of my advice - I just got sick of it.  Sick of every comment on my advice being voted down as well, and tired of people who weren't affected complaining about it.  Yes, anyone who cares about their effort does have an idea about how many votes they have what the average ranking on their advice is, and the rest. 

Since I work in sales and customer service, I am used to having targets and KPI's.  I had my own personal ones, and I do constantly edit my advice.  If it is voted to a 4 on it's own merit - then so be it, I can rewrite it.  When it is constantly voted lower and lower and after months over 4.9 starts slipping down over 2 weeks due to target voting sprees, I did find that unacceptable.

I am so pleased that you have chosen this path of action, it shows that you do care about the site members, and that you are willing to grow and evolve as the need arises.  To me that is fulfilling you duty of care, and very smart business practice.  I may even feel confident enough to re-torture everyone with some more advice!

Cheers, Rachel, Matthew & Clay - Lui

Oh, but I like being targetted! If they're picking on me they're leaving everyone else alone. LOL

No probs, I've gone and deleted or edited everything I can find and access that I've written in regards to voting sprees or how to do them (as i said, that I can access - you might want to look back at anything I wrote as Wendigo that's still floating around since I can't access that now) so as to not encourage anyone else, and I've spread the word around a bit more.

Now I just have to find something else to do when I don't feel like writing and typing. Any suggestions? I know! I'll get a life! LOL