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Discussion on: Has Stack Overflow Become An Antipattern?

 
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Jason C. McDonald • Edited

If an answer is downvoted once, it has a very good chance of getting more downvotes. Similarly, answers with several upvotes will get a lot more of them just by virtue of being the top answer, even if it's a bad answer.

Indeed, I too have seen this. Mob mentality at its worst.