Probably couldn’t teleport the magic immune cloth.

I don’t really think votes mean anything when the community is still small. There tends to be so few comments, you can actually read all of them.

The problem starts in the hundreds of comments. I’m not going to spend an hour reading one comment thread. If a post explodes in popularity your voice is just a drop in a Olympic sized pool, there is a good chance it won’t be seen by another soul.

Once a post hits this kind of criticality, voting is the only way your opinion starts having weight in the discussion. Most communities I use are still small, so either decision will have little impact on me.