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Hi. I recently had some issues with my lemmy client which made me accidentally post the exact same thing here twice. The posts were about privacy on my school issued computer. I could have made it more clear, but I wanted privacy from the companies that make their spyware not from the school that owns the computer. Anyway, as of now one post has more than 40 upvotes and less than 5 down. The other has 10 up and 5 down as well as significantly less helpful and more critical comments. My hypothesis is whether the early comments were helpful or critical determined what other people said. I am curios to see what everyone thinks of this.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I can't explain the differences in comment tone, but the differences in votes are understandable. People don't like to see duplicate posts in their feed.

Personally, if I want to upvote a particular that has a duplicate I'll always upvote the one with more upvotes. And I'll usually downvote the other, too. I don't want to have to open both posts to read the comments, so I'd like the community to align behind one of the two posts as the "real" one.