Does this really have 534 legitimate votes (almost 400 more than the next-highest karma post dated in 2015), or was there a bug in the voting system? I could see “Preface” getting the most exposure (and therefore upvote “surface area”) from people following links from an AI to Zombies ebook starting from the beginning, but I’d be surprised if that alone could account for the massive karma here.
Nope, this is correct. For all logged out users this was very top post on the frontpage for over 3 years, creating a lot more exposure, and really a ton of new users voting on this post as their first action on the site.
Does this really have 534 legitimate votes (almost 400 more than the next-highest karma post dated in 2015), or was there a bug in the voting system? I could see “Preface” getting the most exposure (and therefore upvote “surface area”) from people following links from an AI to Zombies ebook starting from the beginning, but I’d be surprised if that alone could account for the massive karma here.
Nope, this is correct. For all logged out users this was very top post on the frontpage for over 3 years, creating a lot more exposure, and really a ton of new users voting on this post as their first action on the site.
Makes sense. This is one of the first articles I found after making an account.