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Its funny how honesty is considered a virtue, but no one wants to hear the truth!

No where online have I seen this play out more so than on Paleohacks, IMHO of course.

There are a few postings where the truly best answer is the one with the most - points and the most absurd non critical thinking answer that panders to some myopic thought pattern is +10 whereas the - answer might be -3 with 13+s.

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 Our modern virtues are perhaps things like: competition, artful lying and group-think (ie the things held up by society as correct, and things people aim to acheive). I dont think honesty is a modern virtue. – Jamie Sep 17 at 2:38
What is this truth and 'truly best' answer you speak of? I'd love to get some truth, but maybe there are multiple truths... – Michael Sep 17 at 6:30
It's a fact that one liner quips tend to score higher than well thought out, substantive responses. Also there are some topics whose mention results in knee-jerk negative responses. That's PH. – meta Sep 17 at 13:40

closed as subjective and argumentative by MathGirl72, miked, Sara S., blueballoon, Jamie Sep 17 at 2:43

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That "best answer" is your opinion. No, down votes shouldn't be eliminated. And that's my opinion.

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Downvote and flag can alert people of really, really terrible advice. And boy howdy there is a fair amount of that. I don't see the problem, it's used on lots of forum style sites....

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Example? Which few postings?

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