Ranking comes from the value of your comment alone, it is not tied to any number others can tacitly agree to However the feedback you get as a dopamine input i

Ranking comes from the value of your comment alone, it is not tied to any number others can tacitly agree to However the feedback you get as a dopamine input is that you can see (and only you can) how many people agree with your sentiment. However this is a broken metric ; I rarely upvote any story or comment... so there are toons of comments and posts that many people agree with / like but they simply, as do I, not click on the arrows irrespective.... I do click up when I appreciate something, but its rare... Also, I do not know if this is still true ; one used to have a min of 400 positive comment karma before the downvote arrow was unlocked... The only thing outstanding as BS is the cool-down for "youre posting too fast" @dang ;-)