[unclebunkers]

It's one of the few places where the majority of the people either writing the posts or being written about are also the members doing the commenting. I think timezone may be a factor as well; I've made comments which were highly upvoted throughout the day, only to be decimated over the evening. So what your seeing as a parody of itself, I see as different gravity wells of opinion that present at different times. Who sees the story first often dictates the initial run. We'll see a woman in tech article loaded with borderline sexist comments against women, then a singular voice pops up and says how disappointed they are in the community. That gets voted to the top. It's routine, and it's essentially what happened to this article.