You should also try to explain the +17 if you want to win the competition!
There isn’t a competition.
ETA: I meant, explain how the +17 is or isn’t evidence of lack of sanity, but an explanation of the phenomenon itself would of course be instrumental in attempting such a larger explanation.
No idea one way or the other. I didn’t read it. The script in the context didn’t pattern match to the kind of thing that would interest me − 17 votes or no. Something about Cs getting struck by lightning.
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Just read it. It was ok. Somewhat of an insight which I can at least imagine some other people finding interesting. It’s a quote and people’s standards seem to go out the window when it comes to quotes. I’m only mildly surprised that it got 17.
people’s standards seem to go out the window when it comes to quotes.
Has anyone collected the top-rated comments dealing with math, decision theory, and other technical topics? I’d like to see a site-wide “bikeshedding index” based on the ratio between them and the top-rated quotes.
There isn’t a competition.
No idea one way or the other. I didn’t read it. The script in the context didn’t pattern match to the kind of thing that would interest me − 17 votes or no. Something about Cs getting struck by lightning.
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Just read it. It was ok. Somewhat of an insight which I can at least imagine some other people finding interesting. It’s a quote and people’s standards seem to go out the window when it comes to quotes. I’m only mildly surprised that it got 17.
Has anyone collected the top-rated comments dealing with math, decision theory, and other technical topics? I’d like to see a site-wide “bikeshedding index” based on the ratio between them and the top-rated quotes.
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