LCS FAT PLAY!

I mean, on the one hand, it would have likely been upvoted either way--it's a funny play. On the other, you can't deny that plenty of people will often enough see MM's name and be more likely to upvote him just for that. People have mentioned before that if he makes a post about a topic that was downvoted then through power of celebrity he could get that same idea upvoted (within reason), and since it does align with the Celebrity Bias, it's not beyond the realm of possibility that it could be true. Let someone just well-known enough make a post (or public opinion, for real-life celebrities) that even just superficially sounds good and people will buy into it more than if some random person on the street whose name you don't know had said it.

That's not exclusive to just MM, though, and obviously I have nothing against him in the slightest.

salted indeed. I dislike people getting upvoted based off of who they are, not their post quality.