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Re:90% of My Skills Are Now Worth $0 by j2bax on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @03:23PM (#35632210)
Well, you still can't trust everything, but voting mechanisms tend to help filter out some of the BS.
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Re:90% of My Skills Are Now Worth $0 by robocat on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @04:29PM (#35632921)
Voting mechanisms sometimes help drown the worst comments. Often voting doesn’t help the best comments float to the top, because the best comments are often replies to other low-vote comments.

Dan Luu writes insightfully about HN comments here: https://danluu.com/hn-comments/

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