Without seeing the scores, if the more recent comment is on top, we don't know which has more votes. But in fact, both have been on top at different times. > I

Without seeing the scores, if the more recent comment is on top, we don't know which has more votes. But in fact, both have been on top at different times. > I imagine just by sheer nature of the power law that some upvotes are people trying to justify their lot but that would be the minority of people. I guess just so many who haven't made it at all but hold this fiction dear for their own peace of mind? What you're doing here is speculating about the motives of an unknown number of people who upvoted a comment. Can you really not think of any other reason they might have done so?