I’ve been places without upvotes and downvotes and they’re just garbage piles of spam and useless replies.

The Steam Comminity Forms for instance: if you’re trying to get any useful information on a recent release go somewhere else, as half of what you’ll find is people complaining that the game is *woke" (because there is a woman or a minority in it somewhere), and the other half is people complaining that the game isn’t a completely different genre.

With downvotes the useless, troll, and off topic comments can be filtered out to not clutter up the useful posts.