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I seriously wonder if being the first comment and having it start with the word "Upvoted" caused a massive information cascade that caused people to inflate this post's karma, and then when it was moved to main people didn't change their vote because it represented a commitment in their minds and now it's promoted because of its karma score, even though, at present, 94% of it was earned while it was a discussion post...
I do wonder about the effect of publicly stated support. Does this lead to herd mentality as you suggest (obviously it would for most people), or are we all such weird iconoclasts at Less Wrong that the reactance effect is more important?
Nah, people change their votes pretty quickly when they feel like it. Seems more probable that your preferences for articles in main are atypical. Also lots more people voted it up since then.
For one data point, I never change my vote, because I rarely go back and reread articles. The internet is quite large these days so I don't have time to read it twice.