SFbayCane
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It allows you to gauge the overall popularity or approval of the total board on a particular point, in a particular post. In other words, a person's "reputation" is irrelevant to the question of whether that specific post makes sense or was agreed with by the whole population (as opposed to measuring the people who post a lot).
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