Hi @vonpetro, I understand that this doesn't make much sense on the face of things. Your number skills are impressive :)
There are two key reasons for the scenario you describe to occur:
- The upvoter has a deminished voting power (this decreases as you vote on more posts & regenerates at a rate of 20% per day.)
- The upvoter has chosen to give their vote a lower weight using the slider (this option becomes available once you have around 500SP)
The reason a user might choose to use the slider would be either to preserve voting power, or give a partial reward (liked it, not loved it.)
I hope this helps.
thanks - thats really interesting i did not know about the slider thing!!