Quote Originally Posted by Zanarkand-Ronso View Post
EHHhhhhhh.....Im already kind of iffy about "Upvotes"
Its obviously just a way to express that you agree with / Like a post....but people kind of like to use it as fuel and pretend it means they are right about something, even if they are verifiably wrong, and will weaponize it against you that "I have the more popular opinion, therefor you are wrong" just because there are X number of people that get upvotes.
Which, is kind of bad.

Downvotes can have the same effect, where if any number of people dislike a post, peoples brains will think "GASP, they must be wrong and the other person is right."
Plus anybody could press the button, and some might do so just to troll or to spite a person, and if people take the Upvote & Downvote buttons seriously, it can be damaging in some ways.
Especially if the Devs take the upvotes & downvotes as metrics.
On another forum I used to spend time on it was common for people to thumbs up every post just to keep track of where they left off reading the thread. It was absolutely silly.