Herd Mentality in this Community (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by HumanPerson@sh.itjust.works to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Hi. I recently had some issues with my lemmy client which made me accidentally post the exact same thing here twice. The posts were about privacy on my school issued computer. I could have made it more clear, but I wanted privacy from the companies that make their spyware not from the school that owns the computer. Anyway, as of now one post has more than 40 upvotes and less than 5 down. The other has 10 up and 5 down as well as significantly less helpful and more critical comments. My hypothesis is whether the early comments were helpful or critical determined what other people said. I am curios to see what everyone thinks of this.

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[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 14 points 1 year ago

I definitely believe there is some truth to this. How much? I don't know. But definitely some. Same with scores biasing people's initial opinions. Hopefully this positive first reply helps set the tone. We'll see I guess!

[-] Supercharger@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

It used to be the same on the old site, where there was a wider distribution of opinions. It's interesting to see it here, too, where most opinions seemee bias to one side.

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