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The upvote can go with it.
I see no benefit to votes whatsoever. He is a great fool who believes that anyone would ever downvote anything for “not contributing to the discussion”. — There are entire subreddits where I've never seen a single off-topic post that did not contribute, but many downvotes for things as simple as liking a television series others don't, it seems.
On, say, r/learnjapanese, one would assume that the votes are an indication of accuracy, but I've seen so many posts upvoted there that contained flagrantly ungrammatical Japanese and wrong explanations despite replies that point this out.
Votes exist for no other reason than this system exists: to create echo chambers because echo chambers are commcially very interesting for advertisers.
There's nothing here!