The votes do not indicate the quality of the comment, Alicorn, but the quality of the commenters.

Edit for clarification: I said that poorly. It's the quality of the people that vote that is demonstrated, not the quality of the thing they've voting on. Both groups are "the commenters"; it's what they're commenting on that's different.

Further edit: Y'know, I added the above clarification because I didn't want this comment to be perceived as an insult to Alicorn, which it isn't meant to be and really isn't, but the if interpreted in another way the alternative meaning is quite accurate.