Kudos: Is It Just Me?

Does anyone else feel intuitively that a kudo under the new system has or should have a higher threshold than a vote did under the previous one?

If so, should we?

Somehow a vote gives me the feeling of "all in favor say aye" -- something one can provide without any real enthusiasm. A kudo, on the other hand, strikes me as a more independent affirmation, an announcement that there's something more than ordinary about a particular work.

As people know, I'm a reader and commenter here, not a writer; consequently I may only be looking at this from one side of the picture in comparison to many of you. So one way to look at this: do writers here generally value kudos more highly than they used to feel about votes?

Thanks for any comments, public or private.

Eric