And it's mostly: "i see that the is in the tilte, it totally reminds me of this movie or general pop culture reference that also has the in it. i better quote it because it's totally relevant to the topic."
Thread could be about an extremely high potential for nuclear annihilation and the top comments would still be a quote chain.
tl;dr: Anything that's easily viewed and judged gets voted on quickly, and a lot of carefully-thought-out information gets buried. Visibility is the name of the game, essentially.
on my previous account, my top comment was "hahahahahahahahaha" with 800 upvotes, I was the first person to comment on the post and it happened to blow up
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ThatIdiotTibor on April 12nd, 2017 at 13:46 UTC »
And it's mostly: "i see that the is in the tilte, it totally reminds me of this movie or general pop culture reference that also has the in it. i better quote it because it's totally relevant to the topic."
Thread could be about an extremely high potential for nuclear annihilation and the top comments would still be a quote chain.
zonination on April 12nd, 2017 at 14:50 UTC »
This reminds me a little bit of the Fluff Principle.
tl;dr: Anything that's easily viewed and judged gets voted on quickly, and a lot of carefully-thought-out information gets buried. Visibility is the name of the game, essentially.
legor2d2 on April 12nd, 2017 at 16:07 UTC »
on my previous account, my top comment was "hahahahahahahahaha" with 800 upvotes, I was the first person to comment on the post and it happened to blow up