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@6mementomori
Voting is garbage. It's a cancer on all these type sites. Deciding the value of a post only requires basic literacy, and someone else's opinion is irrelevant. I only upvote posts as a reward to the author. It isn't for anyone else. Others should read the post and decide for themselves what value it has.
Voting is a good thing. People need to hear that their opinion or their post is garbage, twitter and Facebook only allow you to leave positive signals which leads to people having over inflated ideas of self worth
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If someone writes a well worded, well thought out opinion that I disagree with what is the proper way to respond? Up vote because it's a high quality comment? Down vote because I disagree? Reply with my own comment? What if my opinion is already expressed in another comment thread already?
It satisfies a human desire so that's why they retain voting.
Much prefer old school bulletin forums where you just comment and nasty comments are removed and you may even get a ban.
At a infrastructure level the voting system is distributed content moderation. So that you don't have to rely on a core group of moderators to flag bad content
Guess it seems to work in very large communities.