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things upvotes conflates:

agreement (here, separated - sort of)
respect
visibility
should it have been posted in the first place
should it be removed retroactively
is it readably argued
is it checkably precise
is it honorably argued
is it honorable to have uttered at all
is it argued in a truth seeking way overall, combining dimensions
have its predictions held up
is it unfair (may be unexpectedly different from others on this list)

(list written by my own thumb, no autocomplete)

these things and their inversions sometimes have multiple components, and many people only allow some of these labels to be applied by close friends, or under specific conditions

Lesswrong is a garden of memes, and the upvote button is a watering can.

10LVSN4y

I was thinking the other day that if there was a "should this have been posted" score I would like to upvote every earnest post on this site on that metric. If there was a "do you love me? am I welcome here?" score on every post I would like to upvote them all.