We are ALL guilty of it. I won't get on the soapbox until I admit to it as well. Blind voting. I'm Brian, and I'm a blind voter, but I'm cutting back. *** HI BRIAN!! *** We just don't have enough time in the day to read EVERYTHING everyone , even our friends, have submitted so we just give them a courtesy up vote and move along. If only one or two people did it the problem wouldn't be so bad, but one or two people don't do it. Scenario One goes something like this: A new submission is posted with the title "Watch out for Explosions!" and a description that goes something like "Since 9/11, airport security has been tightened and regulated with iron fists all over the world. I have given up many a dangerous item before I boarded a plane, hair gel and nail clippers both. I don’t know if I feel any safer, …' So you go by the title and description alone and think that this is something people should see, but you didn't bother looking at the actual article. Had you looked at the article you may have traded that up vote for a down ...