Probably worth pointing out that this article is from 2002.
Probably worth pointing out that this article is from 2002.
...was only upmodded 24 times, did he say to himself:
Only Twenty-Four upmods? This deeply insightful bit of time-tellery is worth Twenty-Five if it's worth a farthing! I shall upmod at once!
This is a worthwhile comment! It points out something that I did not realize, and change the meaning of the article to a degree. I may as well vote on it, that it may move upward in the list and other people read it earlier than other comments.
Also remember that +1 isn't specified to be "Insightful" or "Informative" like Slashdot; nor can you vote a "half-good" comment up a half-point. Instead, to achieve the same effect, a half-good comment must appeal to half as many people. This comment happened to appeal, on its own merits, to twenty-four people.
(Does this mean that the highest-voted comments might be the ones that appeal to the biggest percentage of the site, rather than the ones of the highest quality? Hmm. Does that mean that for the voting system to work well, a good percentage of users must specifically only vote comments that are very good?)