>>14730693it's a good question and I think the upvote/downvote system is a big part of it
but I believe the biggest part is the ability to view post history.
Fags here will elect to do this via trips but having it enabled by default attracts a kind of retard that is incapable of reading or understanding something without knowing exactly who's saying it. in other words if Hitler said something they agree with, they would disagree because >le ebil moustache man. They care more about identity than ideas and for me thats why they're faggy.