@Stephen I understand your point. However, the reason I liked “Votes” as opposed to “Likes” was primarily that they could be seen outside of a topic. That is, a user could visit a category and see a topic list, and then see which topics have more or less votes. If I could show “Likes” in the Topic List without having the user visit the Topic to see it, then I would prefer Likes.
Rather, I can only see 3 things in the Topic List - Views, Replies, and Activity. If I could add Likes to that, then would be perfect.