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This was brought up in the past (most recently about 4 years ago it appears) but never went anywhere. The naysayers felt that this encourages mindless content. I believe the opposite. As it stands today, many threads have pages of replies, of which there are maybe half a dozen actual points made. Then there are countless "+1" or "congrats" or "nice" single word responses. There could be a lot more reading and a lot less scrolling if all the posts which are essentially equivalent to clicking a like button were consolidated in such a way.