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heygeorge ago

I think you’d all be well advised to use your votes more, especially the upvotes. If commentary adds to the discussion, upvote it.

I’m not looking to pick on OP, who’s clearly been taking a lot of flak recently, but @srayzie’s account helps to illustrate this point.

Over approx. three years of posting, srayz has managed to comment nearly 30 times a day. In this same time period, srayz has averaged giving only 3 comment upvotes per day.

If someone is adding to the discussion, whether or not you agree with them you should be upvoting them. Even lurkers can do this. They don’t cost a thing!

And they will help to enable the more thoughtful people to post more things, and in turn give out more upvotes. Consider, then, using downvotes for spam. Low effort commentary may be left alone, unless it is complete tripe you’d like to see less of. This would create three distinctive tiers of comment quality to help casuals decipher what’s going on!

srayzie ago

I agree. I need to get better about upvoting. I forget about it. Upvoting is very important as well.