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It's not different from Reddit or H.N. in the sense that most people that vote never bothered to read the entire post and the same thing is true with peer review. This isn't simply the case in soft-science as the Bognanov affair showed.

They skim, see if it looks okayish and give it their approval.

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HN doesn't allow you to follow users--that makes a big difference in putting the focus more on the content than the users.

Peer-reviewers also don't follow particular names around; they see the name above the submission and it influences them, as on H.N. no doubt.

But it's far worse, even without a recognized names, most votes are cast without proper reading, and I'm fairly certain also by the least intelligent subsection given how often submissions are upvoted on H.N. and Reddit that are pure clickbait and demolished in the comments by people that actually read it. People that vote by and large only read the title or the first sentence and make up their mind from there.

> Peer-reviewers also don't follow particular names around; they see the name above the submission and it influences them, as on H.N. no doubt.

Agreed. I was referring to Quora.

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