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Tue Apr 28 12:49:39 UTC 2020

On Tuesday, 28 April 2020 at 11:43:28 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> The reason for the non-specific link is your votes aren't 
> counted if you access it with the specific one.

How do you know that?

I mean this seems a bit awkward, because if you say is true, I'm 
pretty sure they would know this by setting something trough 
cookies, so if I access the direct link then go to main page and 
finally go back to the link it would work? This sound crazy!

Aren't you mistaken with Bandwagon Effect? Where clicks are 
computed only after sometime later?

Sasha.