Well as a person who also makes mainly electronics (there's a lot i haven't published), I can tell you that electronics must work almost flawlessly every time. Also, on the forums people may look inteligable, but there's a lot of 8-year olds who just like blowing stuff up. I don't even know how my counter got as many votes as it did a few weeks ago, but i guess if you make something good with electronics, and it gets on the front page, the response is usually good.
Oh, and as for the counter, there's a little mistake, all you have to do is press the re-start button and then re-save it, because right now it has two SWCH thingies on at the same time, causing two numbers to overlap each other