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They are in large part hyperbolic and meant to reflect enthusiasm for the content. It's silly to imagine a sizable portion of his base upvoting a submission, bu
by slothtrop 6y ago
They are in large part hyperbolic and meant to reflect enthusiasm for the content. It's silly to imagine a sizable portion of his base upvoting a submission, but not consuming the content, notwithstanding the fact that upvotes don't matter. Likely many users upvote submissions here without comment, in the first place.
Gwern has fans precisely because of the content. If the quality began to nosedive, I'm not sure they'd stick around. More to the point, Gwern isn't writing articles in exchange for upvotes on HN.
- mola 6y agoPeople are associative not rational. They like X's posts, then they like X, then they tend to assume X is right because they like him, so they tend to be less critical of X which makes them like X's posts even more. Anyway, the reason I wrote the comment is because the alternative is to down vote, which achieves nothing. No one really knows why the down votes were made, no lesson is being learnt. Nor a fruitful discussion. By commenting I hoped that: 1. OP will think about this. 2. More importantly, other people will think about this.