On: Why is every story on Uber Delhi driver raping a p...

[danieltillett]

I want to know how this story got 42 up votes in under 10 minutes?

[mintplant → danieltillett]

That tends to happen with meta posts, especially those implying potential wrongdoing on the site. People just upvote them quickly.

[danieltillett → mintplant]

This makes sense. It still seems suspicious to me.

[travisp → danieltillett]

If we're all going to post about vote conspiracies, maybe let's hypothesize that it was pushed by Lyft PR.

[jfoster → travisp]

Unlikely. This type of incident would probably be considered negative PR for Lyft as well as Uber. Taxi bodies, Uber/Lyft customers, and those seeking to unearth stuff like this are probably the most motivated for this story.