I don't agree that people were following the herd. If I genuinely disagreed with a comment, no amount of others upvoting would change my stance. To me, it was j

I don't agree that people were following the herd. If I genuinely disagreed with a comment, no amount of others upvoting would change my stance. To me, it was just an easier way to filter comments worth reading (or at the very least start from there).