Wondering what the first ten are? I had covered the reasons people vote for articles in my post The voting Mystery. Read the post here

http://www.xomba.com/the_voting_mystery

Today morning i went to 'my xomblurbs' and saw a slew of 1's. However, the + sign was grey. I was wondering how all the blurbs had got a 1. It had never happened to me earlier that all my blurbs had been appreciated by someone other than me. Then reason dawned upon me. It is the Great User Points Race. Instead of writing bytes and blurbs ( Which would take at least two minutes each after researching) to take a lead or catch up with someone in the race, just open someone's xomblurb page and splash it with mouse clicks over the + marks. There, you have 10 points in less than 20 seconds. Do it for 10 people, you have a 100 points in your kitty in about 4 minutes. If you don't like giving +1's to strangers open your buddy posts and shower them with your goodness ( I hope this is not true. I don't want my buddies to vote for me without reading the post).

If one is still not happy and wants more he/she can always write comments. Comments garner two points. Some of our friends have realized that also. So we have a bevy of one / two word comments. "Nice post, interesting, great job, huh!, LOL etc. The best comment is "+1". Gets you three points.

Fame and fortune are addictive. Sometimes I wonder how little it would take for people to throw out decency, honesty and fairness. Remember this, you are definitely encouraging the writer by giving a vote and a comment, but only if it is deserving and meaningful. Do it without reason and for your own cause and very soon the original purpose will be lost. People will stop feeling excited on seeing a vote and not bother to read comments. We don't want that, do we?