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by CaptSpify 3655 days ago
that's what the up-vote button is for
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The upvote count is kept private, so it doesn't serve the same purpose of indicating public support for a comment.

Unfortunately meta discussions are frowned upon too, so I shouldn't have made this comment either.

Ah, thanks. I guess I never realized that it was private.