I ignore the votes. It's not a popularity contest. You can't really see ahead of time how many people have voted for it, although you can see how many people have said it's a helpful answer. It's rare that a winning answer gets as many votes as it does helpful ratings.

When I vote, I read the answer and, when in doubt, check the links to make sure they are quality links that somehow support the answer. So far most of them have been.

I imagine anyone trying to throw up links that are junk links would get caught pretty quickly, in case anyone reading this is thinking of gaming the system that way. Mahalo Answers answers rate high in search engines, so bad answers will live on in perpetuity. The "Sheriff's Department" here is usually pretty good about throwing those answers out.

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