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Re:Google Maps for iOS by jrockway on Thursday December 13, 2012 @03:50AM (#4914925)
Nobody can see other people's scores, so it's not a good way to indicate agreement. In fact, it's unclear as to what the purpose of voting is at all.
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Re:Google Maps for iOS by derefr on Thursday December 13, 2012 @04:04AM (#4914960)
The purpose of voting is to sort comments on the page, so that you can save time by only reading the first (theoretically, the "best") N comments in a thread.
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Re:Google Maps for iOS by robin_reala on Thursday December 13, 2012 @04:14AM (#4914991)
Voting affects the order of comments: comments with a higher score (among other factors) will appear nearer the top.
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