Isn’t the quality of a platform with upvoting and downvoting predicated on the assumption people care? If the upvote/downvote signal doesn’t matter, then there’

Isn’t the quality of a platform with upvoting and downvoting predicated on the assumption people care? If the upvote/downvote signal doesn’t matter, then there’s no incentive to produce quality content that (hopefully) gets upvoted, and there’s no point to having those voting buttons anyway.