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That being said, we can clearly not conclude that 'content is king', right? If 'Meta' profile information biases submissions negatively? As mentionned earlier, I am not complaining simply stating a fact. As for YCOMT, it's from a funny episode of a comedy Show I used to watch ... live and learn I guess.

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> That being said, we can clearly not conclude that 'content is king', right?

In my humble opinion, yes, content is not king. But, it's more than just allowing people to put a face to the name. You have to fit in. You have to agree with the political views of the majority. You have to agree with the taboos of the majority. There's a reason Michael O'Church and Zed Shaw aren't on that leaderboard, despite the quality of the content they posted.

> You have to fit in. You have to agree with the political views of the majority.

No, you don't; the people with lots of karma don't have homogenous expressed political views, so they can't all agree with the majority, either. How you post about your views is a lot more important than what your views are.

One of Zed Shaw's comments got over 1,000 points.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6805807

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