What gives with the missing GA's?!?!?

Very good & comprehensive answer, Sparky. The only thing I could add, is maybe peoples aggregate of 'yes' and 'No' to their GA's could be displayed on their user page. That way, if a Green thumb disappears people can see if it was given then taken by (malicious or otherwise) negative votes.

Hey, Ferris - Hope you don't ever delete yourself like Case. I much enjoy your posts and valued input. To paraphrase A Few Good Men, "It doesn't take a green thumb to be a good CR4'er".

We all know that Sparky.

but what the questioner is asking is why some 'peers' (I use the term loosely) after having a slight disagreement then go and rate the other posters as off topic so that they loose their GA status.

Some posters get a good answer for just posting a joke or something, such is their popularity, others give an excellent answer and get nothing.

Hello "Guest".

You are asking me a question for which I cannot know the answer, because I am unable to read the minds of others, to know why that/those other Member/s made their subjective decision/s.

Now you may not appreciate the answer I have just given, but it is the only answer to your question which can be given.

Kind Regards....

Re your last paragraph - Blink also mentioned this in #3. It's probably in part down to how many people are reading a particular thread. Some subjects don't have popular appeal.

I've not seen anything (as far as I can recall) that I'd thought was malicious negative voting. I reserve negative votes for posts that are devoid of humour and relevance, and even then usually just those where the poster has not marked them "off-topic" to start with. ie to let people have their say, but leave it in collapsed display.

At the end of the day it's no biggie, and no more a guide to credibility/value than member titles.

It's probably reasonable that good answer counts can be removed my other members. I have seen "GAs" in areas in which I have subject matter expertise that were not good answers -- they were either misleading or just plain wrong. In that case, they should probably be voted down, I suppose. I think I have voted down a "GA" when it suggested a clearly unsafe practice, for instance. I've voted down a couple GA's when they were posted by one "wacko", and affirmed by two more. For example, we have had a couple "HHO love fests" in which several HHO proponents get together and post ludicrous replies ("I've been getting 76 mpg in my SUV ever since installing my HAFC") and then vote themselves good answers. When I've written critically about such things, my own good answer tally will sometimes drop.

It all evens out in the end, however, and even if your answers are not voted GA's, I am sure that many of them are in fact good answers -- it's extremely subjective. For instance, I have rarely seen an answer by Fyz (Physicist?) that I would not consider a good answer, but his tally is low. Go figure.

I actually lost a couple GAs and then over time got them back again as people read the posts and voted them GAs again... Weird...

I gave one to Ferris, and if I could I would let you have a few of mine...

Thanks Steve, I am hoping that you all do not think that I am looking for hand outs, 'cause I am not. I understand what was going on in the 'I am leaving' thread...kinda like a personal attack on an individual basis (not that I am feeling like this is a problem for me ...) where a poster seems to go after another poster for some REALLY LAME ASS reason. Doing something like deleteing positive responses inorder to be a pain in the back side.

I thought we were all adults here, not school kids... Looking to extract a 'revenge of sorts' if you want to call it that...

Well, I know that a great MAJORITY of us are (eventhough we might not be comfortable with that title ) adults...

Thanks again guys

Ferris