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Comment author: gwern 17 February 2014 04:51:31PM 4 points [-]

The up-vote treatment significantly increased the probability of up-voting by the first viewer by 32% over the control group ... Uptreated comments were not down-voted significantly more or less frequently than the control group, so users did not tend to correct the upward manipulation. In the absence of a correction, positive herding accumulated over time.

Huh. That sounds exactly like the results from my little LW experiment: http://www.gwern.net/Anchoring

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