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You're right - I should be thinking and deciding for myself.

But if judging the value of a comment requires expertise or experience that I do not have the score is valuable to me.

This is more so when I see a comment and a counter-argument. And if I wrote the parent, a high-scoring reply would make reconsider my position.




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