I dislike strong votes and I personally never use them. I agree with OP’s criticisms.
(The exception is that my own posts are strong-upvoted by default, and I don’t undo this because that would be unfairly penalizing my own posts relative to other people’s.)
There is an argument that perhaps power users are “better” at voting. But from the voting patterns I’ve observed, my impression is that power users are still too liable to upvote shallow posts, drama-y posts, etc. I have some uncertainty about this because it could be that the median user’s voting patterns are even worse.
I dislike strong votes and I personally never use them. I agree with OP’s criticisms.
(The exception is that my own posts are strong-upvoted by default, and I don’t undo this because that would be unfairly penalizing my own posts relative to other people’s.)
There is an argument that perhaps power users are “better” at voting. But from the voting patterns I’ve observed, my impression is that power users are still too liable to upvote shallow posts, drama-y posts, etc. I have some uncertainty about this because it could be that the median user’s voting patterns are even worse.