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This. These kinds of posts always make me roll my eyes. Frequently they get hundreds of upvotes.

Makes me wonder about the quality of submissions from the fields I understand much less (sciences, humanities, politics, etc.).

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Don't be silly - computer programmers are experts in every field due to Google and Wikipedia, so certainly the science and humanities posts must be of top quality.

Yeah, but that last thing holds for nearly everything – whenever I read an article on, say, physics, I cannot help but wonder whether the articles on (e.g.) the war in Iraq were produced with the same complete disregard of correctness.

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