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I'm not sure if this is a logical fallacy per se, but I have observed some very strong groupthink effects with respect to voting dog piling, both for positive a
by siglesias 16y ago
I'm not sure if this is a logical fallacy per se, but I have observed some very strong groupthink effects with respect to voting dog piling, both for positive and negative votes. Strongly postive comments and stories tend to have accelerating up voting rather than the expected fixed frequency of votes, implying that number of votes is itself a factor for some in deciding whether to vote for something. It shouldn't be.
- philwelch 16y agoYeah, it's increasingly easy to find out which side of an argument has the more popular viewpoint, even if both sides are making good points and intelligent comments.