No one uses notepad for anything other than writing down quick notes while on the phone.
Actually, it's a really powerful code editor. It's used by many devs and sysadmins to quickly edit code and text based configs when it's not on their machine. It's also useful when you boot up a fresh vm just for a quick test, downloading another text editor there doubles the work you need to do.
The votes still represent something in my opinion, that's why they're there. And I really don't like it when I spend time writing, sometimes researching, formatting and somebody just says „no, this is shit” without even reading the first sentence, because they can just do that.
I tend to leave really long comments, sometimes with a bit of raw information, so I see how that can be the case. Some communities like reading all the way trough, but I'm pretty sure that in some places, they don't even read my username, just vote based on my avatar.
In my country it just became an actual „political platform”, the opposition leader started hosting an official AMA today. Maybe like with all things, it's just politics ruining everything.
Actually, it's a really powerful code editor. It's used by many devs and sysadmins to quickly edit code and text based configs when it's not on their machine. It's also useful when you boot up a fresh vm just for a quick test, downloading another text editor there doubles the work you need to do.