This wasn't even questioned. These people really do believe garbage.
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This is a pretty great insight into karma dynamics
I don't understand why they ever used that system in the first place, or why we're copying it here.
There is something to be said for high effort and more well thought out comments floating to the top. Obviously groupthink is the big concern, but even something as simple as the displaying of the number of downvotes does a lot for that.
The fact of the matter is retards are going to get swept up into groupthink no matter what, karma just greases the proverbial wheels a bit.
The small size of the community mitigates the groupthink problem to some extent. When it gets so big that you don't recognize 90% of the usernames then that's an existential crisis.