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What is really interesting is the up and down voting patterns as we swing around the working world. Asia/Australia is quite different to Europe which is very di

What is really interesting is the up and down voting patterns as we swing around the working world. Asia/Australia is quite different to Europe which is very different to the USA. You can have a comment voted way up in one region and then massively slammed down as the sun moves into another.

meritt 8y ago
That would be extremely interesting to see. I really wish votelogs were public. The invisible hand is precisely why active measures [1] are so effective. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_measures https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_measures
- Operyl 8y ago
  I, on the other hand, really hope they don’t become public. That’s just going to allow for retaliatory voting.
  - 13of40 8y ago
    Public but anonymized, with timestamps might make for some interesting data.
ryanwaggoner 8y ago
I really experienced this with my anti-GDPR comments. In the afternoon EST they’d be positive and then take a nosedive in the evening / overnight, I assume as Europeans woke up and took umbrage :)
- danieltillett 8y ago
  Yes GDPR is one of the topics sensitive to regional voting. Another is anything questioning if humans might not be born blank slates. Human evolution discussion is also quite sensitive to the time of day.