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by PopeOfNope 3871 days ago
Something that shouldn't be overlooked is the fact the author is John Graham-Cumming and you are kelvin0. Almost every one in the top 10 leaderboard posts under their real name. They have more respect and credibility than an anonymous poster. It's one of those annoying and readily exploitable flaws of human nature.
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jgrahamc 3871 days ago
Also, I clicked on kelvin0 and the only thing the profile says is YCOMT which appears to be You Came On My Tits (at least according to Google).
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kelvin0 3871 days ago
That being said, we can clearly not conclude that 'content is king', right? If 'Meta' profile information biases submissions negatively? As mentionned earlier, I am not complaining simply stating a fact. As for YCOMT, it's from a funny episode of a comedy Show I used to watch ... live and learn I guess.
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PopeOfNope 3871 days ago
> That being said, we can clearly not conclude that 'content is king', right?

In my humble opinion, yes, content is not king. But, it's more than just allowing people to put a face to the name. You have to fit in. You have to agree with the political views of the majority. You have to agree with the taboos of the majority. There's a reason Michael O'Church and Zed Shaw aren't on that leaderboard, despite the quality of the content they posted.

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dragonwriter 3871 days ago
> You have to fit in. You have to agree with the political views of the majority.

No, you don't; the people with lots of karma don't have homogenous expressed political views, so they can't all agree with the majority, either. How you post about your views is a lot more important than what your views are.

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DanBC 3871 days ago
One of Zed Shaw's comments got over 1,000 points.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6805807

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