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I've noticed the negativity on macOS. There may be reasons for it, I don't know. I'm pretty happy with it and I've started skipping some discussions because of

• saagarjha 6y ago
  It's not just macOS. What you really want is a topic that most commenters have no background knowledge or preconceptions about, and you have to make sure that you can't link to one in any way whatsoever. The latter is a little hard to do, because people will cling to the most tenuous of relationships in order to be able to provide their input: you could be talking about a Windows API and someone will bring up EEE through some convoluted path and from there the conversation will go downhill. The best comments are the ones on articles about dolphin psychology or whatever and someone might ask a simple question and a real expert will chime in with something like "I have worked with dolphins for 17 years and also I wrote my doctoral thesis in cetacean-human interactions" and it's just a page of an interesting viewpoint that you just never knew about.