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The dynamics of post upvotes are quite different, they are not always sign of agreement. I saw a lot of time people saying they disagree, but they upvote the p
by DeusExMachina 16y ago
The dynamics of post upvotes are quite different, they are not always sign of agreement.
I saw a lot of time people saying they disagree, but they upvote the post to make it more visible and involve more people in the discussion. I even do it myself from time to time.
- scott_s 16y agoThat's rather my point: you can't use upvotes alone to gauge if the majority of this community approves of a submission. I admit I was doing it sideways, but I was trying to point out that if you used his metric for both this and the other posts, you'd arrive at a contradiction.