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		frereubu on Oct 30, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Public Apology to Jeremy Howard I think you might get downvoted because you started with “I’m going to get downvoted for this...”

dheera on Oct 30, 2020 | [–]

Reverse psychology often works; I have seen many examples of this on both HN and Reddit.

patorjk on Oct 30, 2020 | [–]

I'm not so sure about this. I routinely see comments that start like that with a lot of upvotes. It could be survival bias, but I have a feeling reverse psychology could be coming into play.

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