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View submission: Is OP backlash a thing?
The original post is massively upvoted because it is exceptionally cool, funny, fascinating in some way. People have a positive opinion of the post and OP for the contribution. Then OP ruins everything and breaks the illusion of their excellent post with a lame and uninspired comment in an attempt to take a victory lap and get more attention. This demands a downvote to condition OP to refrain from such behaviors.
There are less common examples of OPs that continue their winning streak in the comments with new clever or funny content e.g. “with rice” guy.
Comment by fantasmalicious at 23/02/2025 at 05:14 UTC
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Perfectly stated. Those rare OPs like your "with rice" example though? When they have the insane hot hand? Those always stand out to me both on the merits and for exactly this meta we're talking about here and I love finding one in the wild.
I agree that this is the bulk of the matter, especially because it seems like comment trajectory is established early, and those early vote/comment contributors are wont to take this tack towards OP. Layer in some of that "did it contribute" vs "validation" voting patterns and that is pretty much the story.
Edit to add: OP_en_fuego or something would be a nice but dead as hell subreddit for such cases