• masterspace@lemmy.ca
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    9 days ago

    Oh I don’t think it remotely is. I just find it irritating that someone sees lots of complaints about the most popular thing and takes that as an indication that it’s bad, and ignores the indication that it’s not (it being the most popular thing).

    Lots of complaints about something popular literally means nothing on its own. The content of those complaints have validity, but there’s nothing to learn from their metadata.

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      8 days ago

      Actually lots of complaints has meaning. It means lots of people have problems with it. It doesn’t mean anything else but this.

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        8 days ago

        Yes. But if you have many complaints from MANY MANY users, it may not mean anything serious, it could still mean a very small fraction have problems. Absolute number means very little without context. That’s the purpose of the previous comment. Please note how it doesn’t say anything about qualities of Windows.