RE: Upvotes and views going down daily????

I believe that the sheer amount of new stories being posted is diluting the total amount of votes, along with the attendant problem that stories are flying down the queue far quicker. It doesn't help that we have a lot of material being reposted from elsewhere, with a reference, but otherwise being the story in its entirety. This is reducing the amount of original material in some cases, and also attracting votes which really should not be given for simple reposts.