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Re:Ask News.YC: Proposed experiment to test "The PG bias" by brett on Wednesday April 16, 2008 @11:07PM (#165958)
Being able to follow pg on his threads page is part of the bias too. He gets more votes because his comments get read by more people.
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Re:Ask News.YC: Proposed experiment to test "The PG bias" by coderrr on Thursday April 17, 2008 @02:46AM (#166135)
This is true. But the experiment could take this into account. It could only count the votes which occur directly from the main page.
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Re:Ask News.YC: Proposed experiment to test "The PG bias" by jrockway on Thursday April 17, 2008 @12:10AM (#166021)
Or maybe he just modifies his karma directly :)
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