Experimentally it can be informative to refresh one&#x27;s controversial comments as this can show the total may have received many more up and down votes than the final total suggests.<p>My inner statistician would be interested to see up &amp; down totals as a metric of controversy.<p>FUD merchants, social media management, astroturf, superpacs, brigades, vendettas are common enough on Reddit and the Post-Snowden zeitgeist demands we consider Orwell&#x27;s &#x27;84 where the mere possibilty of being observed is enough to bring general opinion &amp; behaviour to heel.