These aren't outlier cases.<p>If I wanted to boost my comment score average, I would very deliberately formulate <i>even more</i> bogus opinions about popular "controversies". Oh, I sure would come up with a lot of crap to say about Zynga, the Apple Tablet, and Websprockets.<p>It would work, because haunting the less popular topics has been a surefire way to get my average to drop.