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that's why the wisdom of the crowd works better for guessing a slaughtered ox's weight at the fair than it does on HN or Reddit. There is obviously a very large group of very smart individuals who regular HN, to disagree comes with the fear of looking stupid and being downvoted

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Wait... are you actually, genuinely afraid of being downvoted? It's okay to be wrong sometimes, dude! Sometimes being very wrong is the only way to learn and help you further down the road. You win some, you lose some. If you're afraid of being wrong on the internet anonymously I can only imagine what it's like in the real world...

Maybe this speaks to the timidity/introversion of many HN posters but remember we are also entrepreneurial -- gotta take some risks!

haha check out my post history, I am far from afraid of being downvoted, I actually feel like I usually know when I will be downvoted and I still post. I would guess most others would not and that affects the overall quality in a negative way.

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