A few people have noted that the voting system on RichmondBrainstorm.com is a little mysterious, so I thought I'd try to break it down for you.

If you've used social bookmarking sites like Digg, then you'll be very familiar with how voting works on this site, because the software we're using was originally created to implement Digg-like sites.  But we've modified it and rearranged it some, so it's still worth getting into the details: