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)
Any tech bro had nothing to do with this. It is what the community has decided as a whole that an upvote or a down vote means in the context of a conversation on the internet.v I was on Reddit for about 17 years pretty much since the beginning. And before that I was on dig and it's always how it's been used when it comes to the context of conversations.