To be more specific, it is a heuristic for detecting flamewars and/or controversial topics and it is quite good at that.
why exactly do we want to damp flamewars by comment count? as long as an individual comment fits the rules why do we punish comments in aggregate
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why exactly do we want to damp flamewars by comment count? as long as an individual comment fits the rules why do we punish comments in aggregate