Yeah sorry about the walk tweet, I think I posted it and then realized that you said somewhere that the actual analysis looked at what happened when different people were at bat.
I think that this may result in fewer of what you call good readers because of the way so much traffic is driven through news aggregators & social media. I think (?) a lot of people decide what to read based on reading the comments and/or the title and
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from having spent too much time commenting, I've noticed that a seeming refutation will get upvoted about the same regardless of whether or not it's right, and if someone replies with a seeming counter-refutation, the upvote rate will slow down, again regardless of correcntess
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People don't seem to actually care about the information in the comment and judge things by how right-sounding the comment is. I think (?) an incorrect refutation that sits at the top of a comment section will cause people to not read the article.
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