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Re:Central bankers rethink their devotion to slaying inflation by cynicalkane on Sunday December 23, 2012 @04:43PM (#4960779)
Right now, the top post on the frontpage pro-inflation article is anti-inflation, and the top post on the frontpage pro-deflation article is anti-deflation.

Regardless of the merits of each, they can't both be right and they can't be the products of substantially different readerships. It's as though people are upvoting people simply for being contrary.

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Re:Central bankers rethink their devotion to slaying inflation by Jare on Sunday December 23, 2012 @05:32PM (#4960948)
People upvote for being insightful, relevant, well thought out and well written; for adding to the discussion, not for being right. A contrarian post will usually have more to contribute than a post that basically agrees with the OP.
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