Not sure if everyone does it this way, but I find agree/disagree votes more important for what you’re saying than merely upvotes. In cases like this, I would use agree/disagree votes if I know a lot about either Owen directly, or about Jonas’s judgment in situations like this.* Even though it’s technically anonymous, I think of agree/disagree votes in situations like this as “staking a small part of my own reputation on the claims in the comment.” I’d use upvotes more liberally and upvote things that sound potentially important or insightful even if I’m still unsure about them.
*I guess a third case is if I think a comment uses weird reasoning that makes me think the person who wrote it has bad people judgment, I could also see myself disagree-voting it from a distance/without any more direct knowledge.
Not sure if everyone does it this way, but I find agree/disagree votes more important for what you’re saying than merely upvotes. In cases like this, I would use agree/disagree votes if I know a lot about either Owen directly, or about Jonas’s judgment in situations like this.* Even though it’s technically anonymous, I think of agree/disagree votes in situations like this as “staking a small part of my own reputation on the claims in the comment.” I’d use upvotes more liberally and upvote things that sound potentially important or insightful even if I’m still unsure about them.
*I guess a third case is if I think a comment uses weird reasoning that makes me think the person who wrote it has bad people judgment, I could also see myself disagree-voting it from a distance/without any more direct knowledge.