> I think it's unfortunate, but indicative of the incentives created by an upvote-based commenting system that the top comment here for a while was a person who

> I think it's unfortunate, but indicative of the incentives created by an upvote-based commenting system that the top comment here for a while was a person who picked out a single sentence and derailed the discussion within three minutes of the link being posted This happens all the time. The article about autonomous vehicle crashes skyrocketing, the top comment was "they're skyrocketing because they started looking for them, they weren't before" and someone pointed out that this was in fact addressed in the article within the first few paragraphs.