Its contradictory cause everything on Social Media is built on top of an oversimplistic foundation of collecting Likes and Followers.

What that Like/View/Click/Upvote/Follower Count signals to different people is very different. So naturally there is going to be misunderstandings. Which keeps building with time. Who wants to see someone they have no respect for accumulating a ton of Likes and Followers? Its an unnecessary provocation.

On slashdot for example, they cap how many Likes you can collect and add another layer of signalling. They dont just show people the Like Count next to a comment. Users are also able to tag the comment as Offtopic, Flamebait, Troll, Redundant, Insightful, Interesting, Informative, Funny, Overrated, Underrated etc etc. These kinds of experiments have to happen more.