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The Quality, Popularity, and Negativity of 5.6M Hacker News Comments (2014)
- anigbrowl 7y agoPosting multiple old articles from the same source, on the other hand, is not good.
- factsaresacred 7y ago> Hacker News is a critical resource for young male techies based in Silicon Valley (Disclosure: I am a young male techie based in Silicon Valley), this has the consequence of excluding female hackers. This is a non sequitur. Anybody of any sex can enter the url into their address bar. Males liking a thing does not preclude females from also liking that same thing. Perhaps the author is trying to build a premise for his analysis, but given the mostly pseudonymous nature of HN, it's a silly one.
- antisthenes 7y agoGiven the other glaring flaws in his analysis, that's the least of his problems.
- funkyshit 7y agoAnyone can use this site. Anyone can comment. I don't see how this is excluding anyone. Of course you will find nasty comments if you actively collect them. This narrative of online harassment against women is very one sided, in my opinion. Research from pew (https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2017/07/11/online-harassment-2017/ https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2017/07/11/online-haras...) actually shows us that men and women receive roughly the same amount, in total.
- acqq 7y agoNeeds year in the title: (2014). Previously on HN, with the most comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8425385 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8425385
- sam_lowry_ 7y agoIs there a list of most voted HN comments that is continuously updated?
- pault 7y ago/bestcomments