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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.
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.