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Re:Aaron is dead. From: Tim Berners-Lee by mtrimpe on Saturday January 12, 2013 @04:25PM (#5048945)
Amazingly enough the thread about his passing [1] has 34.340 upvotes and 31.742 downvotes.

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/16fjjm/aaron_shwartz_r...

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Re:Aaron is dead. From: Tim Berners-Lee by drzaiusapelord on Saturday January 12, 2013 @04:34PM (#5048977)
My understanding is that the system begins faking upvotes and downvotes at a certain point to fool spammers.
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Re:Aaron is dead. From: Tim Berners-Lee by clicks on Saturday January 12, 2013 @05:00PM (#5049061)
Which is still curious, because it's common knowledge at this point that the numbers are fudged. Why even display it at this point? It serves nothing but to cause confusion.
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Re:Aaron is dead. From: Tim Berners-Lee by jlgreco on Saturday January 12, 2013 @05:18PM (#5049112)
Even though people know it's fake, I am sure it still plays an important role in gamification.
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Re:Aaron is dead. From: Tim Berners-Lee by sp332 on Sunday January 13, 2013 @10:36AM (#5050955)
The difference between upvotes and downvotes is right, but the absolute numbers are random.
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