Hmm I’m interested to see what the community has to say about this. I upvote decent content by default most of the time just due to wanting to encourage people to post.

I upvote almost everything using PMBY2's theory that it encourages more participation. The only exception being that unless it's serious spam or someone itching for one, I rarely down vote, if I don't like it, I just don't upvote.

I upvote everything that contributes to poal.

can we get a 24 hour global sticky on this post?

Which is why Poal needs a tagging system, so we can publicly tag posts with a variety of things like, troll, kike, nigger-talk, OC, ...

Then if a post shows nigger-talk>5 I can set my client to hide it from my view.

I upvote items I want to see discussed, regardless of whether I agree with them. Unless it's clearly SPAM or such.

I generally don't upvote or downvote. I'll upvote people in a thread that I start, if it's a worthwhile comment. Also if there's a thread that I feel is important, I'll upvote that.

I only really downvote aggressively shitty comments or blatant propaganda.

I agree with this. This is a good way to look at points.

Which is why I don't think we should give a shit about point totals.

I suggest we do regular random events where peoples points get all fucked around. People's points get switched randomly for a week. Point resets. 420 for all on april 20th, shit like that.

Only points on individual posts and comments matter.