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Yes, I encountered this myself, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43264608 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43264608.

• pvg 2y ago
  You're deriving 'controversy' and then something about the preferences of forum participants as a whole from the small vote changes (ending with a non-downvoted comment!) of a tropey, generic comment in reply to a very tropey bombastic comment. I don't think you can really do that accurately from those inputs.
  • fsflover 2y ago
    > (ending with a non-downvoted comment!) Only after I had to comment asking for reasons. Also, it's not the first time, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43379510 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43379510. > tropey, generic comment I don't see how it's generic. It's about one specific example of a general trend.
    • fsflover 2y ago
      Another example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43402696 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43402696
• DrNosferatu 2y ago
  Key expression: "receiving many upvotes and then downvotes"