[faeyanpiraat]

It seems like it got 15 upvotes, so it might have been worth it.

[weird-eye-issue]

This isn't reddit who cares about upvotes here?

[faeyanpiraat]

Everyone.

Points help you calibrate your own behaviour to be more helpful to others in this community.

Whatever helpful means in a context.

In this case it was a funny comment well received by the community.

[tomcam]

Wait how do you tell if it got upvotes?

[mikestew]

Click the user name, has 21 points, only made one post, ergo...

[exikyut]

You set your time machine 6 months into the future, then the upvotes show up on hn.algolia.com.