New Study Finds That Most Redditors Don't Actually Read the Articles They Vote On (vice.com)

Michael Byrne, writing for Motherboard: According to a paper published in IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems by researchers at Notre Dame University, some 73 percent of posts on Reddit are voted on by users that haven't actually clicked through to view the content being rated. This is according to a newly released dataset consisting of all Reddit activity of 309 site users for a one year period. In the process, the researchers identified signs of "cognitive fatigue" in Reddit users most likely to vote on content. Online aggregation is then somewhat a function of mental exhaustion.

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Re:Isn't that what mod points are for?

[AmiMoJo]

Or it could be you've managed to piss people off to the point that they simply don't care what you're saying, or your opinion is just complete shit.

That seems to be the case. People have some strange ideas about me, and mod based on those incorrect assumptions. When they do read my posts, they seem to read all sorts of bizarre things between the lines.

Putting people in boxes is a popular tactic these days. It's an effective and fast way of dismissing them and poisoning the well. Often it doesn't even make any sense, e.g. when I say I'm a male feminist and people accuse me of hating men.

I've decided to stop trying to respond to people doing it directly and instead just state my case. Hopefully it will be apparent to any reader with an open mind that all the weird assumptions and accusations are incorrect, without me having to be explicit about it. Playing defence is not a winning strategy, because even if you win it feels like the guy with the feminazi soundbite won in people's minds.