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[–] ChillyHellion ago 

I think it's because:

  • Having no voating power teaches you to contribute comments, both to voice your opinion and because that's the only way to "unlock" voating.
  • Then having no downvoats teaches you to voice your disagreement with an existing comment rather than using the downvoat button as an easy "I disagree" button. Some comments still contribute to the discussion by asking questions that you already know and voicing perspectives that you may not agree with.

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[–] JManSenior918 [S] ago 

I understand the downvoting (or lack thereof) completely. I guess it's just strange to me the lack of upvoting. I don't hand out upvotes to just anyone, but 10 a day is very restricting. I also think it makes it harder to stratify different quality levels of content, because almost all comments have a very similar range of upvotes and downvotes regardless of what they're saying.

I guess what I'm saying is that it would (to me) make a lot more sense to implement a system like this after there is a large user base in order to screen people who come to the site just because it has become the thing to do.