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  • picklefingers
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    Well for one, I believe posting many low quality posts does hurt your reputation because it makes it harder to raise. Makes sense as it is a percentage. And the point of the downvote isn't to punish lower quality posts. It is to punish spam. The upvote button, however, is to reward quality posts. So, if it isn't spam and it isn't high quality, it should fit right in the middle as neither an upvote nor a downvote.