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Re:Student Loan Debt Is Now as Big as the U.S. Junk Bond Market by dragonwriter on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @01:05PM (#15853946)
> For example, you can post the same remarks criticizing functional programming in a post about C# or Java and get upvotes, while the same post in a Haskell discussion will be downvoted.

It's simply unreasonsble to think that the value of a comment is independent of its context.

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Re:Student Loan Debt Is Now as Big as the U.S. Junk Bond Market by RyanZAG on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @01:17PM (#15854080)
Certainly, although it's clear that the largest part of the context would be the audience that the comment is exposed to. And it also shows that the upvote and downvote feature is not used correctly here either - it's used to promote or hide comments that the viewer agrees or disagrees with.

Just the same as Reddit. It's a deeper issue than just being 'reddit', and it's more about online discussion in general.

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