I sometimes wonder if there are people here (as on reddit) that try to game the system to get upvotes... seems ridiculous as there's no functional purpose of ac

I sometimes wonder if there are people here (as on reddit) that try to game the system to get upvotes... seems ridiculous as there's no functional purpose of accumulating upvotes here. I assume that a lot of the top posters spend a large volume of time submitting and commentating on HN-- myself included.