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by jaytaylo 1463 days ago
Me too, why not do it this way?

I wish to encourage conversations I am interested in (or I otherwise enjoy / appreciate). Bothering to write a reply in good faith is nice.

Also, internet points are a worthless, sham, game-ification trick thing.
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csdvrx 1463 days ago
Well, some of us prefer upvotes to indicate "I've replied to you" - I even put that in my profile!
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imron 1463 days ago
Most people will likely never read your profile unless they have a specific reason to, and replying to a post is not a specific reason for many (I basically never check profiles of people I've replied to).

Using upvotes to indicate "I've replied to you" is also going to be drowned out by noise because a poster has no way to know who has upvoted therefore no way of distinguishing your "I've replied to you" upvote from a regular user who upvoted their reply because it was informative/useful.

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csdvrx 1463 days ago
> Using upvotes to indicate "I've replied to you" is also going to be drowned out by noise because a poster has no way to know who has upvoted therefore no way of distinguishing your "I've replied to you" upvote from a regular user who upvoted their reply because it was informative/useful.

While I fully agree, it works well enough as is :)

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