> users who post submissions and comments That's a far cry from weighting by comment instead of by user, not to mention the other factors I mentioned. Maybe it

> users who post submissions and comments That's a far cry from weighting by comment instead of by user, not to mention the other factors I mentioned. Maybe it would help if you could provide a link where people could look at the raw data (properly anonymized of course) and do their own analysis instead of relying on yours. > people's preconceptions about HN are amazingly strong Indeed. As you point out, nobody's exempt. Of course, there are ways around that. The proof's in the pudding. There are probably many people here who could do a real sentiment analysis and compare the result to other sites. I'm as sure as you are of what that would show, even though we make different predictions.