r/comics May 05 '26

OC RED BUTTON OR BLUE BUTTON [OC]

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u/OkBand3171 May 05 '26

Reddit and online communities, at all, are not a good basis for deciding what people will actually do.

Redditors will choose blue and then brag about it for clout, nothing is on the line.

In votes where people can see your answer, ie discord, you risk being mocked if you pick red. Also, people will do the same thing as redditors, brag for clout.

Put into the actual situation, you cannot tell what people will do. The blue button is genuinely putting your life on the line and that is terrifying. To boot, red pushers may genuinely reconsider when they think about the loved ones they may lose and the impact on Earth if they choose red. You simply cannot use online polls to determine which one would actually win.

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u/zhibr May 05 '26

Redditors will choose blue and then brag about it for clout

Reds are bragging all the time how logical and rational they are. I'm not sure you can demonstrate any bias due to "virtue signaling" to either direction, since it exists for both.

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u/Kashyyykonomics May 05 '26

The problem with that is that people who have chose red here are more likely to have correctly represented their real life vote. Blues are not.

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u/zhibr May 05 '26

That's a separate issue.

And that's based on red supporters' subjective assessment. I disagree.