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by SpicyLemonZest 1989 days ago
And even when not explicitly manipulated, the wrongness is baked into the system. At least once a week, I catch myself rewriting a comment not to improve it but to increase my chances of getting upvotes. How many claims do I make, how many positions do I believe, simply because I know somewhere in my subconscious that they'll get upvotes?