> when we humans explicitly assign semantic to up/down vote What kind of semantic would that be? Using a real-world example, some of the comments I have made i

> when we humans explicitly assign semantic to up/down vote What kind of semantic would that be? Using a real-world example, some of the comments I have made in this thread have had the up button pressed multiple times. Others the down button multiple times. There is no difference in the comments. The are all about the same subject, all written by me about that subject. There is no discernible explanation for the difference. All I know is that the buttons were pressed. There is no more information provided to me. > this contradicts your other point, which is that "having your post read is the real reward," since there is no guarantee the post was read before voting. How so? My "other point" (it is the same point) explicitly calls out that those guarantees are not made, using an accidental press as an example.