it's helpful to know what I've already read. if it's not a shit reply, it gets a bear. ofc, this means I read shit replies multiple times and get angry all over but at least I know what's probably new (to me).
you get a bear, and you get a bear, and you get a bear, and everyone gets a bear.
Equal parts that, and also I want to give a little reward to people just for having posted, y'know? Encourage more discourse. It takes a really shit post for me to rethink making that little golden bear.