>a reply to a question is more likely to be correct when the character has already been described as a smart, honest, helpful, harmless, etc. Is that actually

>a reply to a question is more likely to be correct when the character has already been described as a smart, honest, helpful, harmless, etc. Is that actually true? FWIW I've often ran into the reddit equivalent of Gell-Mann amnesia. In a thread about some niche topic I'm fairly knowledgeable about (something I've worked on professionally for years where there's maybe 10k people globally who know it better than I do), I post a comment that gets downvoted to hell, while there's a highly upvoted comment from someone who clearly just skimmed Wikipedia and poorly paraphrased the intro article.