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		brett on April 17, 2008 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask News.YC: Proposed experiment to test "The PG b... Being able to follow pg on his threads page is part of the bias too. He gets more votes because his comments get read by more people.

coderrr on April 17, 2008 | [–]

This is true. But the experiment could take this into account. It could only count the votes which occur directly from the main page.

jrockway on April 17, 2008 | [–]

Or maybe he just modifies his karma directly :)

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