Chances are it’s the halo effect, but one other (admittedly less-likely) explanation is the hope by people here that lukeprog is actively working on improving his writing (and therefore providing higher quality writing that those people will then read) and they want to encourage his effort.
At least that’s what I’d come up with as an explanation if I was asked to assume the people voting had thought their vote through.
Chances are it’s the halo effect, but one other (admittedly less-likely) explanation is the hope by people here that lukeprog is actively working on improving his writing (and therefore providing higher quality writing that those people will then read) and they want to encourage his effort.
At least that’s what I’d come up with as an explanation if I was asked to assume the people voting had thought their vote through.