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I disagree. Voting is low-effort participation. Leaving a comment is much higher effort. I prefer the latter.
I agree that voting is low effort participation is it is participation. The software is kind of designed to work this way. More favored posts/discussions are promoted. If nobody "promotes" anything, the wheat stays mixed in with the chaff.
But it's a "why not both" situation. If you don't vote, the comment won't get featured as highly. That might not matter much for a thread with 5 comments, but when there's 200 comments, only some of them are gonna be seen and voting defines which (not replies -- after all, plenty of bad comments get tons of replies).
In addition, making a post with just a title and link with no commentary on the topic is low effort as well. It's acceptable for things like memes as they stand on their own, but I'm already getting tired of finding what I would call news spam from select users. There's a reason many subreddits had rules on adding comments and descriptions to a post, it was from years of dealing with drive-bys who didn't contribute to the actual discussions.
I don't add commentary for news articles I am just trying to make people aware of. I may have an opinion on it but if I do put it in I do it in the comments like everyone else.
This one is harder for me. I'm one of those people who posts an article without necessarily also writing my thoughts in the "body" box when I post it. Sometimes I do, but oftentimes I think that people don't want to hear what I have to say about this topic; they want to hear what the article writer has to say about the topic. I try to hedge on this by writing a summary of the article in the body box if there isn't a summary already provided. I try to save opinion for the comment section.
Im the same, commenting is when I want my voice heard, my votes are when i agree/like what others say
This is an excellent point! If someone's already spoken your opinion, your upvote is you nodding, or "harumph"ing, in agreement.