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Re:The curse of the upvote by fauigerzigerk on Wednesday August 06, 2008 @02:32AM (#268280)
But that only exacerbates the problem. People will start to vote for what they think others will like instead of what they personally like.
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Re:The curse of the upvote by abcde on Wednesday August 06, 2008 @05:05PM (#268979)
But that's how the stock market works. :) Trying to do better than that is futile.
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Re:The curse of the upvote by fauigerzigerk on Thursday August 07, 2008 @08:46AM (#269581)
The stock market wouldn't work either if users of the products companies make would act like investors. Just imagine what they would buy :-)
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