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I'd much rather deal with the ramifications of "groupthink" than wade through dozens of banal comments.

Vote counts give me more information. While that may affect my understanding of an idea, it's for the better.

Points may have an inherent bias towards older posts or well known authors, but I value what they represent.

But part of what groupthink does is make the points mean less. The opinions of a few can start a groupthink snowball burying good comments and raising mediocre comments to high scores.

So as of now, that information you're using is unreliable because it is affected by groupthink.

Which is exactly what happened on Reddit, where you have to wade through all the up-modded pun threads to get to the real comments.

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