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_h4xr on June 4, 2008 | parent | context | favorite | on: Obama: I will be the Democratic nominee

If people don't want to hear political opinions, won't they downmod everything else equally?

Do you really expect that there will be no correlation between bad-mouthing Barack and getting more downvotes?

carlos_m on June 5, 2008 | [–]

In case this gets buried in the noise:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=209502

dhs on June 4, 2008 | [–]

Obligatory: correlation != causation

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