I think about this a lot. Even if a person "only" got 300 views, imagine those 300 people in front of you staring at you.
(sh.itjust.works)
Not really, I would say I take them as intended.
In that case, you either take up votes as “I liked that, thank you” and downvotes as “I didn't like that”; or you take upvotes as "people come up to you to give you oral pleasure", in which case you can take downvotes as "calls you a cunt and punches you in the face".