let me solve this issue for everyone.
the 2 main reasons why there are normally far more visits than votes are...

1. A lot of people that read Minti advice are NOT Minti members. A lot of them arrive from search engines and do not become members.
2. The other main reason is that a lot of people visit some advice and then dont read it all.

Hope that helps.

But I do agree that if you read some advice it is best (and polite) to vote accordingly.

-- Clay

I vote on most of the articles I visit, but often don't leave comment unless I really have something to say. As mentioned by someone else I also don't vote if the article doesn't grab me at that moment, sometimes I will return to it & give it another go later. I've learned some wonderful things on Minti & really get a kick out of sharing the site with family & friends when they drop or when chatting over the phone.  Lately I'm finding the voting system is a little hard as I really hate giving someone a score lower than 4. If I'm not taken with an article I just don't vote on it any more, because someone has worked really hard on something & who am I to say it is not up to standard. It may be the best work they have ever done & only be a line long. Usually things are either V Good or Exceptional in my eyes. We have so many mums trying their best who hardly speak any english & I commend them for their efforts.

Hi
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Just saw this one and had to add it

Clay cook

ADVICE RATING   4.12 (Good) from 85 votes  (8804 Visits)

Makes ya wonder if anyone votes hey....
Hey Clay do you feel neglected lol

not even 1/100th of the ones that have looked/visited have voted.....that is  a scary statistic......
Luv Deb

Hi
I know on articles i do vote on each time there is a new comment i go back to read what it is.....Until minti has a fix that only shows the first visit per person not subsequent there are always going to be a lot off visits....
There are some articles that i don't vote on purposely as why should i mark a good article down just because i don't agree with what they say...I sometimes cannot mark it high as it does not concern me.....and the category is good or it works for me....if the wording was changed on the votes i think a lot more people would vote....
Just my thought
Luv Deb

Ps I haven't seen your name on everyones articles...don't you vote???

After all there is 17328 people on Minti at this present moment 3533 articles are in the top list at least and you have only voted on 102 and commented on 118......
That's a lot of votes....wonder how long it would take to read everyone on mintis articles and vote
Hope this don't offend you but i had to show some of the statistics as to why it don't look like everyone votes as well.....
Luv once again
Deb

Some people have already voted and made a comment they will go back and check the comment, which counts as another visit.
They may go back to change a vote.. Yet another visit..
Or as the comments usually have different headings, not everyone realizes they have already been there and clicks on them..  Every click counts as a visit... So sometimes you can get people revisiting to check their own advice and see what comments have been made, or just people not realizing they have already visited and voted.....   I  know I have done this many times myself...

jessxx

Maybe because the same 3 or 4 people that do vote keep going back to check the advice time and again?  Maybe people can't decide what their vote should be, or the advice doesn't apply to them, so they leave it alone for others to decide?  Or maybe they are like me and often forget to vote after reading something?

To get the answer to that question you would have to look through all the 17,000+ recent activity lists for each member, and when you have found the ones that are constantly not voting on advice, you would have to then message them personally to ask each individual why they aren't voting.  Then you would have to compile the data you collected after receiving their answers and  then you would have a range of reasons that could formulate a graph of most to least common reasons.  I think you'll generally find that most people that don't vote don't do so because of indecision or irrelevance to them.

jusr remember that every time someone visits the article it counts as a new visitor say I write an article and go and check the coments and votes each time it counts as a new visit, so if there are 20 visits and 7 votes it could be that only 7 individuals saw or read the article the rest are just the same people re-visiting or the author.