Re:Ask HN: Do you upvote direct replies?
by csdvrx on Sunday June 19, 2022 @07:34PM
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Well, some of us prefer upvotes to indicate "I've replied to you" - I even put that in my profile!
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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.
> 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 :)