How does one even define contrarian? This is a vast oversimplification, and OP has not provided any evidence to support their claim. This being Hacker News, I w

How does one even define contrarian? This is a vast oversimplification, and OP has not provided any evidence to support their claim. This being Hacker News, I would expect a simple sentiment analysis model trained and run against a database of posts and top responses, and the data made available for independent analysis. Even if that is the case, who's to say that this is suboptimal? Current popular discourse is all too often an echo chamber of self-aggrandizing charlatans patting each other on the back for every meaningless... ... oh wait... ... you may have a point...