Put a small vote button on the left

From a reply I made to a discussion on this very subject elsewhere:

...the point of the vote button being on the right side is to encourage users to actually consider the contents of the submission, perhaps by (and this is a strange concept on social media, I know) reading the article first, before they vote. ;)

Which is the same reasoning behind the new top-level comment box being at the bottom of the comments page, rather than top... and the comment vote option being below the comments, not above/to the left.

I think the problem is that people are so used to reddit they just expect the exact same design standards here but don't necessarily stop to consider whether or not the standards on reddit are encouraging poor behavior or not... which I would argue they are.

It's going to take a bit of an adjustment period to get used to the way things work on ~ but I think people will get used to it eventually and hopefully the site's culture will be that much better for it as a result of the deliberate UI element placement decisions.

I'm not poo-pooing your suggestion but I'd just like to say that I enjoy that the vote button and comment box is at the bottom. It's a little reminder, silently asking me to listen to what other people have to say.