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commenters who wrote in an authoritative voice were routinely highly scored, even when insanely wrong

My favorite was the reverse psychology. Any post that began with: "I know I'll be downvoted for this ..." had a much higher than average chance of winding up at +5 Insightful.



This still works on Reddit unfortunately




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