Yes, but… IME in those situations (at least when they don’t involve sexuality) usually at least some (about 5-10%) of the comments do espouse the meta-contrarian position. The booing of the virginity charity auction girl was unusual for its unanimity even in its own reference class (unless you restrict the reference class to sexuality-related issues only).
> how likely are they to read the comments below the article;
Plenty of the people I’m talking about don’t exactly sound like they had read the earlier comments before writing their own.
Yes, but… IME in those situations (at least when they don’t involve sexuality) usually at least some (about 5-10%) of the comments do espouse the meta-contrarian position. The booing of the virginity charity auction girl was unusual for its unanimity even in its own reference class (unless you restrict the reference class to sexuality-related issues only).
> how likely are they to read the comments below the article; Plenty of the people I’m talking about don’t exactly sound like they had read the earlier comments before writing their own.