I feel that the policy you state is read once and ignored for whatever reason. A mere reminder on an individual basis seems unlikely to effectively address this issue: There are too many humble users who feel their mere vote is irrelevant and would cause undue bias.

I feel that this entire topic is one of critical importance because a failure to communicate on the part of rationalists is a failure to refine the art of rationality itself. While we want to foster discussion, we don't want to become a raving mass not worth the effort of interacting with (à la reddit). If we are who we claim to be, that is, if we consider ourselves rationalists and consider the art of rationality worth practicing at all, then I would task any rationalist with participating to the best of their ability in these comments: This is an importation discussion we cannot afford to allow to pass by into obscurity.

Huh, interesting. I'd already noticed I try to

1. upvote what I want more of, and downvote what I want less of

2. avoid voting on technical material I don't think I can adequately judge

but I never noticed the tension between those two heuristics before. In practice I guess I prioritize #2. If I can't (or can't be bothered to) check over a technical comment, I usually don't vote on it, however much I (dis)like it.