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Comment by hgezim | Hacker News Reader

Are upvotes in a comment worth the same as upvotes of an answer?!

It seems like it is worth nothing but a badge, as documented here: http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/17364/how-does-comme...

    "No reputation of any kind is earned or lost from comment votes, though the Commentator badge is awarded for leaving 10 comments, and the Pundit badge is awarded to those who left 10 comments, each with a score of 5 or more."

Upvotes show up on the side of the comment, but you don't get any rep for it.

Ah, ok. There is very little incentive to commenting. Are people that afraid of criticism on SO when there is no upside to commenting?!

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