It may sound like it on the surface, but I don't think it is a good thing in the long run. There's a fine line between making a community and making a herd. Up

It may sound like it on the surface, but I don't think it is a good thing in the long run. There's a fine line between making a community and making a herd. Upvoting / downvoting encourages both, the problem being trying to have enough to encourage the first without enough of the second to lose the community you've built.