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I remember reading analysis showing that there is a high correlation between the order that comments are posted and how many votes they get, i.e. early comments tend to get most voted. I guess people are gaming the system by commenting quickly. Who has time to read a 10 min article and comment when you can not read it and post a platitude?

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I don’t think that’s it. When I comment early, it is not to game the system. It’s to kick start a discussion around the title. Or I am intrigued about something by the title and then it’s fun to go on a bit of a tangent.

I also appreciate it that a submission with a small amount of upvotes has a discussion going.

Or people could learn to be based and redpilled like me and not karma-whore

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