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Is "inflammation" a function of opinion popularity?



No, rather a function of provocation over substantiveness.


And popular opinions are not provocative, by definition. Why would one pour substance into a comment which will be flag killed anyways, instead of simply saying what one means succinctly in the hopes that approximately four people will be exposed to ideas they've never been exposed to?




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