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Re:Are Trolls Ruining Social Media? by dsil on Thursday June 11, 2009 @01:45PM (#653188)
It would be (mildly) interesting to see some stats on the difference in votes if pg occasionally posted under some other name. You could experiment over a couple weeks - before each comment flip a coin, heads you post with 'pg', tails with some new account. I guess ignore posts like this one where who you are is part of the comment.
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Re:Are Trolls Ruining Social Media? by medianama on Thursday June 11, 2009 @02:23PM (#653280)
I am sure difference will be significant.
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Re:Are Trolls Ruining Social Media? by asdflkj on Thursday June 11, 2009 @09:41PM (#654011)
Maybe not. I don't upvote pg's comments because it's redundant. He doesn't need the encouragement, and people listen to what he has to say regardless of the score.
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Re:Are Trolls Ruining Social Media? by rms on Thursday June 11, 2009 @09:47PM (#654018)
It's impossible because you'd have to separate the comments where pg is speaking as pg, administrator of this site and partner in YC, and comments discussing articles in a less official capacity.
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