Hot take: the “voting” system is trash
I’ve personally seen some of the most ill-informed, ridiculous comments from users with abnormally high “votes” under their name.
This ‘awarding points’ feature, by simply receiving a “thank you” is pointless and actually misleading.
All someone has to do is go on every Reta before and after post and say, “nice gains, bro!” and collect endless (useless) points.
And then others could easily mistake them for someone who has previously offered valuable insight.
The actual lesson (that most of us learned long ago) is to not take anything anyone says on here as gospel and do your own research.
But, why even have a point/voting system when it’s based on something as inconsequential as “thank you”s?
At least have a dedicated function to submit a point to someone
I’ve seen way more points given from simple “thank you for the compliment”s than “thank you for the insight”s.