"I'd always assumed the intent was to vote when you feel something contributes to the discussion, or is particularly relevant." It is. I've decided to just lea

"I'd always assumed the intent was to vote when you feel something contributes to the discussion, or is particularly relevant." It is. I've decided to just leave the comments (reactions) as they are and signal upvote by commenting. If the post/comment is of no interest, no comment. Voting in some ways has distorted the real intent of the site: "talking about things hackers like". Imagine of the rating system did away with votes and instead measured the quality of the discourse on something interesting.