It is almost impossible to have something mean the same to everyone. That it doesn't is sort of the point of having a discussion in the first place. There are p

It is almost impossible to have something mean the same to everyone. That it doesn't is sort of the point of having a discussion in the first place. There are plenty of evidence on hacker news that people will have different, let's say perspectives, on even the most carefully crafted articles. What I think mostly happens instead is that you start adapt what you write to please the crowd. Sometimes that is a good thing, if it leads to things like being more polite or making better argument, but often it means being either more controversial or writing more vaguely to balance upvote and downvotes. When the primary concern should really be writing decent comments, even if only one person might find it interesting and some small percentage of the crowd disagrees.