Anything that degrades 100% human curation harms the platform. IMO upvoting should be reserved for original blog posts and not used within any discussion. Such a community practice (along with elimination of bot voting) would focus the rewards pool on authors and eliminate the morally disgusting practice of people engaging in conversation in order to harvest upvotes.
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The .02 earnings threshold sure degrades it. I'd upvote you but it wouldn't count.