They might also be meaningless internet points. Who knows.

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    97 hours ago

    remember the heated discussions about the “proper” use of downvotes?

    iirc there was a bloc of users who were very adamant that downvotes only be used for indicating the comment in question failed to adhere to the 1964 Chicago Manual of Style regarding commas or something, but everybody else was using it to say “don’t like it” and they were super-cheesed.

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      56 hours ago

      Personally:

      Upvote = I like it or it contributes well to discourse

      Downvote = repeated trolling (first comment gets a pass, as do unpopular opinions, but doubling down on unambiguous and apolitical truths doesn’t), spam, scams, etc.

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        14 hours ago

        To me, voting is mostly a sorting tool.

        I may upvote to make sure a great comment is higher than the good comments around it. I may even disagree with the comment to some extent, but I’m still going to upvote, because I think it adds something important to the conversation and more people should read it. However, there are also situations when I upvote to show my approval.

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        26 hours ago

        Sure, that makes sense.