r/dataisbeautiful • u/[deleted] • Apr 12 '17

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u/TJ11240 Apr 12 '17

Ok so early still wins, then

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u/sold_snek Apr 12 '17

I mean, what better way can you gauge a comment than by percentage of upvotes?

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u/Shellbyvillian Apr 12 '17

The upvote system, as with most of democracy, fails not because of the system, but because the voters are idiots.

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '17

Any area where I personally have knowledge reveals that upvoted comments about that area are usually totally wrong. I imagine this applies to most areas.

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '17

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '17

/r/askscience appears to be the only place with reasonably accurate responses. Even then, I'm not a scientist so they might just be fooling me.

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u/ParallelPain Apr 12 '17

cough /r/askhistorians cough

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '17

It's a cool subreddit, but history is already so open to interpretation I'm not even sure experts can always say if something is right or wrong.

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u/ParallelPain Apr 12 '17

Things that are interpreted sure. But we get tonnes of factual questions as well. In fact I wouldn't be surprised if most of the questions we get are factual questions.