What's the problem with the voting system???

As we all know some poets, poems, get ratings they don't deserve, and some high quality poems get voted down -- usually after making top rated poems board. Now, I can understand some of the poem that get higher rating them they deserve, because people just being nice and not wanting to dicount another's truth as bad -- although it might not qualifly as art really, and then, some votes poems high in the hopes of getting high votes in return. I can understand those concepts, but here is the real riddle, how some, most infact, really good poems that make the top rated board with 4.8 or above and are actually really good and have artistic merit sunddenly start getting ratings of 1's and 2's. Is it a lack of artistic appreciation, that some just don't know good work when they see it, I mean, it can't be just petty jealousy can it? How come every poem that makes the "best poems" list ratings go down??? Confounded!!!

I think it is pure jealusy, Robert. At least most of the time...or perhaps simply because those who vote doesn`t like he or she who wrote the poem...

JPM`s poems, for instance, was usually given 1,2 and 3`s, even though some of them were brilliant

Yeah, I've learned all this the hard way. Aslong as you know it's a great poem, then it IS a great poem.

-mandi

Ok, so the voting system is messed up because it got changed awhile back, because people were complaining about down voting. It used to be a lot better before they changed it. It worked fine if your poem was good enough. Take the love poems list for example. It used to be that once a poem hit about 7 to 10 votes with a 5.0 it would be on the list, until it fell below a 4.6. Now the system is so messed up that poems with 3.5 ratings and lower are on the list. That's what I don't get. There was a time that every poem I posted ended up on the list and had staying power. Now your lucky to get two days. I have seen people with poems that are rated as 5's with 10 and 12 votes and are not on the list. The system just sucks, your gonna have to try and deal.~peace