Hi, this is off-topic but...

I'm a regular follower of the Maemo news, being always curious about the ratings. I think in most cases and for more people the ratings make sense... if you consider that maemo.org has been until now a place for open source & non-profit software for developers and power users. Think also that people are not necessarely voting "against you", they might just want to avoid that off-topic news hit the front. What is off-topic? That is subjective...

As a general pattern, Thoughtfix gets thumbs down when talking about consumer devices (including tablets seen as consumer products), Nokia/Nseries PPRR activities, commercial software. You also get some thumbs down just because you summarize about the news, the original news is already on the top and people give thumbs down to echoes not adding more information, which imo is part of a useful community editorial work.

Krisse got also some when her articles were considered perhaps too basic for that audience. Karoliina got thumbs down blogging about Ubuntu desktop and Vala (in the desktop too). The poor Zeeshan gets thumbs down even when blogging about GUPnP development upstream... probably by people ignoring that libgupnp is installed in their devices. That's it, or am I missing anyone?

So what? Does anybody doubt about the overall merits of Thoughtfix, Krisse, Karoliina and Zeeshan in the Maemo development and community? I don't.

I reckon the system is unfair for some individuals and the 4 mentioned above came to complain at some point. If we look at the overall system though I think the process is quite good (and it would be good to have more people rating actually) and the top 5 news in the front are really the most interesting stuff going on most of the times.

The garage news could get more visibility, some of them are quite interesting (many of them are just 2 basic lines though). They always get underrated, I guess because most of the people ratign follow http://planet.maemo.org instead of http://maemo.org/news

Conclusion: Daniel don't worry.