Voter strength has two fundamental purposes.

'[#[Encourage Voting on All Entries]
The less number of entries a BotBr votes on per compo the less impact their votes have.  It directly correlates to the percentage of voting.  So if a '[[BotBr] votes 18 out of 18 entries in a compo their votes are counted 100% but if some '[n00b] registers to only vote on their friend's single track in the same compo their vote would have 5.555% the impact.

BotBrs can not vote on their own entries.  Because of this participants will not reach 100% of their voting prowess.  Don't worry though, the '[[criticist]s will pick up the slack!

'[#[Realizing Capitalism over Democracy]
BotB has taken the stance that '[[noob]s are n00bs and their voices should be taken like a grain of salt.  Although '[l[http://battleofthebits.com/coliseum.php?act=view&thread=886[this has been controversial] we must remember that BotB is an '[[MMORPG] in the works and spending time here needs to count for something.  It doesn't take that long to amass points and level up anyways.

The voter strength appearing on BotBrs' '[[barracks profile] is found by adding up all the digits of their Total Points.  For now this number gets divided by 5 and truncated for actual compo tallies.  No one's voter strength is ever less than 1 (until you apply the voting percentage).