As much as I agree that voting should be used to indicate value to the discussion and not agreement with one's own opinion, I think it is a hopeless cause. It

As much as I agree that voting should be used to indicate value to the discussion and not agreement with one's own opinion, I think it is a hopeless cause. It requires that participants curtail their instincts for the sake of the greater good, an unlikely prospect in the best of circumstances, much less in a community of semi-anonymous strangers. I think it better to simply suggest that people not take scores so damn seriously. To stop interpreting them as a measure of thoughtfulness or truthfulness and start thinking of them as just a reflection of people's attention.