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People upvote everything they agree with, downvote everything they disagree with.
That's the reality, no matter what they say.
You can easily see this in a thread where two dissenting opinions are present: one opinion gets upvoted consistently, the other gets downvoted consistently, and it's not based on the quality of their prose.
Hot take: And there is nothing wrong with this.
Given a large enough population density, there will be enough variety of opinions to bring up the quality line.
Of course, we know what happens when a large percentage of that population is LLMs, which I pinky promise I am not one of.
groupthink is not exclusive to small populations
True, but groupthink is still split among ideologies.