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Originally Posted by The Palimax
The thought in B&M, previously, was that users wouldn't be able to mentally separate the two types of threads within one forum, and couldn't +1 and FYP themselves silly in [LOW CONTENT] tagged threads without accidentally crapping themselves all over "serious" threads.
Sorry if this is just a rehash of what I posted in the B&M "+1 poll" thread, but fundamentally I don't see +1 as
necessarily being low content or crap, although I agree it can be abused.
A lot of times, someone asks a more-or-less factual question and of the first 5 responses, one is correct, and four are not. There's really no point in retyping the factual answer over and over again, but it's also not helpful if the correct answer just appears to be one of many possible correct answers.
I think there's legitimate concerns about someone quoting 656 lines of text just to +1 it (or any other sort of one-liner like "haha" or "omg" or "zing"); if that's the case, just penalize people who abuse the quote function, not the people who use (but don't abuse) +1.