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I wonder how these scores were affected by their placement on the thread.

I've observed that many good HN comments that are added relatively late often fail to get any additional positive votes -- my guess is that people can't be bothered to scroll down, and/or assume that anything with a low score is not worth reading especially when there are other comments in the same thread with high ratings.



I think you're right here. Also depends on the timing.

If you're the first commenter, and you're 'kinda' right, you'll get far more upvotes than if you're late to the party and very right.

I think the reason the 3rd comment got upvoted was that it wasn't a direct comment, but a response to someone else.

Having said that, I think we're reading way too much into this.




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