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Voting because you agree or disagree is a Bad Thing for a quality filter. Unfortunately, though, all these sites start off with a quality filter and end up with a demoralizing popularity contest. Voting should cost you something.


The quality of a comment is not orthogonal to its truth.


Nor is it identical. That's the problem.


I agree!


Well, just don't vote me up for it...


I agree to disagree.




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