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15 Post author: RobertLumley 27 January 2012 01:38AM

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Comment author: dbaupp 27 January 2012 03:58:44AM 10 points [-]

This comment's karma really surprises me though, not because of the post quality, but because 41 people looked at and downvoted it.

I think a lot of people are tired of roland bring up that issue again and again. (And possibly (negative) halo effect once it got a few downvotes and replies explaining why people downvoted.)

Comment author: [deleted] 27 January 2012 05:05:02AM 1 point [-]

There is such a thing as an unreasonable position (a crackpot, if you like). The difficulty is in accurately distinguishing between correct contrarians, the reasonably misinformed, and the absurd.

This being a wonderful example of the negative effects of that difficulty.

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