You would have been so ratioed if you said this back when I first joined Imgflip. I definitely think upvoting each other even when there’s severe disagreement is part of the reason why discourse was so much better back then than it is now.
It’s against Imgflip etiquette to not upvote comments; But you know what else is against Imgflip etiquette? Upvote-begging. So, if someone’s not upvoting your comments, what do you do? You don’t badger. You don’t whine. You move on with your life. That’s what a real T.I.E. would do, anyway.