Hey, thanks for posting it here. I am the author of the study. Here are some additional charts for fellow HNers: Most voted words at HN: http://ediscope.labs.y

Hey, thanks for posting it here. I am the author of the study. Here are some additional charts for fellow HNers: Most voted words at HN: http://ediscope.labs.yahoo.net/final/hackernews_positive.png http://ediscope.labs.yahoo.net/final/hackernews_positive.png Least voted words at HN: http://ediscope.labs.yahoo.net/final/hackernews_negative.png http://ediscope.labs.yahoo.net/final/hackernews_negative.png These trends are pretty volatile. The data was collected at the time when Larry Page was announced to succeed Eric Schmidt. They were pretty hot that day.