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Re:The Great Apple Keyboard Cover-Up by danieltillett on Saturday July 14, 2018 @02:37AM (#17529141)
What is really interesting is the up and down voting patterns as we swing around the working world. Asia/Australia is quite different to Europe which is very different to the USA. You can have a comment voted way up in one region and then massively slammed down as the sun moves into another.
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Re:The Great Apple Keyboard Cover-Up by ryanwaggoner on Saturday July 14, 2018 @09:34AM (#17530276)
I really experienced this with my anti-GDPR comments. In the afternoon EST they’d be positive and then take a nosedive in the evening / overnight, I assume as Europeans woke up and took umbrage :)
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Re:The Great Apple Keyboard Cover-Up by danieltillett on Saturday July 14, 2018 @06:53PM (#17532822)
Yes GDPR is one of the topics sensitive to regional voting. Another is anything questioning if humans might not be born blank slates. Human evolution discussion is also quite sensitive to the time of day.
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Re:The Great Apple Keyboard Cover-Up by meritt on Saturday July 14, 2018 @02:40AM (#17529151)
That would be extremely interesting to see. I really wish votelogs were public. The invisible hand is precisely why active measures [1] are so effective.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_measures

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Re:The Great Apple Keyboard Cover-Up by Operyl on Saturday July 14, 2018 @06:40AM (#17529753)
I, on the other hand, really hope they don’t become public. That’s just going to allow for retaliatory voting.
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Re:The Great Apple Keyboard Cover-Up by 13of40 on Saturday July 14, 2018 @08:33AM (#17530077)
Public but anonymized, with timestamps might make for some interesting data.
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