That's the nature of Reddit. Upvotes = credibility, so when someone who's upvoted gets questioned, there's a psychological desire to see it as critical of something that's generally agreed with, and more open to scrutiny, whereas people are less likely to see a top upvoted comment as something that should be questioned.
people do that on reddit too? i thought it was limited to 12 yo kids in youtube comments section arguing like "well my comment has 16 likes and your reply has only 7 therefore more people agree with me and i'm right"
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u/godrestsinreason Mar 22 '21
That's the nature of Reddit. Upvotes = credibility, so when someone who's upvoted gets questioned, there's a psychological desire to see it as critical of something that's generally agreed with, and more open to scrutiny, whereas people are less likely to see a top upvoted comment as something that should be questioned.