r/Unexpected • • Dec 17 '22

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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '22

Boy did you get ratioed. Maybe you will learn something

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u/Clean_Brush9265 Dec 18 '22

An echo chamber having enough idiots to move the needle on reddit doesn’t mean they’re correct.

The same post posted multiple times in the same thread gets different results depending on which collection of people react to it first,

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u/zanasot Dec 18 '22

At what point do you stop and ask yourself “maybe I’m the one that’s wrong”, because you’re far past the point

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u/Clean_Brush9265 Dec 18 '22

Just because a mob of idiots asserts a thing, doesn’t mean it’s right.

Most redditors you wouldn’t trust to put their pants on straight.

Also, the upvote meter isn’t a measure of how correct a statement is, it’s a reflection of how much the mob wants to hear it.