Answer by Jason for Does up vote of an answer necessarily entail someone...
An upvote doesn't mean "this personally helped me in my day", it means "this adds knowledge to the site, which we as a community deem helpful"The fact that you have cast votes that don't follow that...
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The real answer (in my estimation at least) is probably something proportionate to the upvotes. This happens largely because of how many people can and do vote and how they vote.First there are those...
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I've upvoted when someone has taken the time to answer my question in a method they find useful. If it works but is not exactly the answer, I'll still give them an upvote. I usually only do this for my...
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Does up vote of an answer necessarily entail someone found it useful?
I've often seen people proclaim "the answer had 40 upvotes, therefore 40 people found it useful". An example of this can be seen in this comment.I want to contend that this isn't the case.I personally...
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