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US Politics 30w
I’d love to see a psychological / social experiment on upvote dynamics here. Stg I’ll send three paragraphs all responding to the same idea and the one that got an initial upvote will get like 6 more while the others get none. Monkey see monkey do I guess
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Anonymous 30w

First mover bias here is crazy

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Anonymous 30w

What’s really fascinating to me is when like there’s differing upvotes along a list of replies I made.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 30w

Is that some official theory or your own take?

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 30w

Like usually the top one has the most, but it’s always interesting when like my second reply has less upvotes than my third reply

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 30w

My own take but realistically the app places biggest replies near the top, so if you’re early and get more upvotes I guess you just stay on top. And then it’s easy to maintain once you’re the first comment on a post. If you post as #43 on a big post no one is gonna see it at first

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 30w

I also think if a reply has more than 1 upvote it automatically jumps out more when someone is scrolling through replies so people are more likely to also upvote it

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 30w

Oh yeah fax fs. Lowkey wish they didn’t do that, I’d much prefer replies in chronological order. Put popular posts at the top of the explore page sure but leave comments chronological so upvote farming doesn’t get you the first comment

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