Almost like it's different people :) The bigger issue is that simplistic takes expressed strongly with no room for disagreement tend to get the most upvotes fr

Almost like it's different people :) The bigger issue is that simplistic takes expressed strongly with no room for disagreement tend to get the most upvotes from other people. The people who agree will upvote, the people who disagree will just move on, and the people who don't have an opinion will think the person sounds like they know what they're talking about and will upvote anyway. That's how you end up with back to back threads where completely opposite takes are highly upvoted, and both of them happen to be awful takes.