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by minimaxir
4257 days ago
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> However doesn't it make sense that an issue that's popular would reflect the magnitude of it's importance? Not exactly. You're confusing correlation with causation. On sites with Reddit-like rankings, the number of votes which a submission receives is one of the primary causes for the subsequent number of comments/activity of those respective submissions. And "importance" is not necessarily causal to submission ranking (aggregators are weird). |
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