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Part of the problem is that people will inevitably associate upvotes with a consensus of agreement with the author, and thus trust advice they probably shouldn'

• rudasn 14y ago
  Not necessarily. I often find my self upvoting articles that either seem interesting or have interesting discussions in order to go back to them and review them. Most often than not I read the comments first and then the article. If someone would implement some code pattern depending on the number of votes that pattern has on HN they have a bigger problem than how HN voting works.