OK. Thanks for your response.

Thanks for your response to the article.

If people are attracted to threads due to number over responses that is a sad sad sad situation. Makes no sense at all to me. I look at threads based on topic not popularity and assume literally everyone else does too … why wouldn’t they?

I look at threads based on topic not popularity and assume literally everyone else does too … why wouldn’t they? — I like sushi

Well, you are referring to your own criteria. You can't really know what the mind of the rest is or what they are attracted by.

I simply do not understand why, depending on the person, one thread gets more relevance than the other. It is just strange to me. As you said, people chime in threads because of the topic, like if they were acting objectively. I disagree, using the arguments I mentioned previously. I have evidences that - not exactly but similar - threads about ethics or Philosophy of Language get more attention depending on who the author is, not the content itself.

That could just be down to quality. Maybe popularity is a thing. People are stupid so it happens.

The younger people are the more they want to be heard and the more attention they seek.