[plorkyeran]

Yeah, votes aren't useless. Obviously you shouldn't just go implement the things that get the most votes without question and ignore everything else. However, if there's two things I think I should implement and the community is much more excited about one than the other, I should probably do that one first. If something gets a whole bunch of votes and I think it's a bad idea that means I need to actually take the time to explain why it's bad rather than just leaving it languishing in the backlog. If I think something's going to be great but it doesn't have a lot of votes, it means that I need to put more work into explaining why it's useful than I might otherwise.