I think encouraging existing users to upvote is a good idea. I made the upvotes give more instant impact and hover over effect. I stopped myself before animating an upvote. But these upvotes should be delivering a little more dopamine now. We just need to make a push for upvoting so people will see it's fun to upvote things.

Also besides numbers first time posters really want to see conversation happen. I sometimes look for posts that have zero replies to comment in. Top right now are unfortunately some 50 minute videos. That's a big ask to ask people to watch those and give a comment. Probably not going to happen.

But my encouragement is with the shorter content if someone took the time to share something or write something, be a nice guy and say something back.