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I checked LessWrong's echo chamber effect when it came up by comparing the ratings of the first page of top posts to the ratings of the next page.
Using the anti-kibitzer to vote your way through an exchange, and then re-reading without the names and votes blocked is also a good method for analysing possible echo chambers.
And you found...?
The effect appears to be small. I don't know if the database logs times of votes, but the times of actual posting are fairly homogeneous, so being a top post early on isn't a big enough advantage to stay a top post forever.
I did notice an interesting trend for the number of upvotes to as a function of place to undulate in an unexpected way, indicating either that people are upvoting slightly differently based on quirks of the number or based on page position in the "top" pages.