I don't think it's offensive to comment without upvoting. RC and VP are limited resources. The person might also disagree with something I wrote or are pointing out an error that I made and so an upvote is not warranted in that case. I'd rather have more feedback comments rather than less feedback because a user felt they had to leave an upvote too.
It used to be that users wouldn't see a vote slider until they had 500HP. This way to prevent chain bloat with dust votes. In those days, expecting minnows to only vote and comment on ten posts is the opposite of what we want. TBH a dust vote is going to add very little value to my post but a comment does wonders.
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