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Also make a pointless, positive statement about a popular technology and you get upvotes. Point out that a clever solution is not that useful or applicable and

Also make a pointless, positive statement about a popular technology and you get upvotes. Point out that a clever solution is not that useful or applicable and you get a lot of downvotes. I wish I could have a comment ranking system not based on sheer popularity.

dang 9y ago
> Point out that a clever solution is not that useful or applicable and you get a lot of downvotes I have exactly the opposite impression, that this is one of the easiest ways to get cheap upvotes. So much so that we have to moderate to prevent such subthreads from choking out others.