Voting & the resulting XP could be seen as a means of conditioning/learning. If you say something that people like, whether it's technical or not, they may well upvote it. That gives them a reward (semi-tangible if they get an xp point from voting, but also in the form of engaging with the community), gives you a reward in the form of xp, and helps to make the site community more cohesive. The reward encourages people to express their opinions of nodes regularly & hence both strengthens the community and (eventually) highlights to an extent whether a node contains something valuable.

what I'm trying to say is I would rather have 1 vote on the snippet and 0 votes on the comments that don't really contribute anything useful to the community.

If your post got upvoted, someone read it and agreed, or enjoyed it enough to vote on it, so it did contribute something, however intangible, to the community.

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g0n, backpropagated monk

In reply to Re: The purpose of voting by g0n
in thread The purpose of voting by Gekitsuu

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