I did an unweighted, unfiltered count of the submissions with more than 10 comments in your post here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26713636 https://new

I did an unweighted, unfiltered count of the submissions with more than 10 comments in your post here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26713636 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26713636 16 negative 8 positive In the examples of popular threads you cited, a two-thirds supermajority were anit-Stallman. I did a cursory search for "RMS" and "Stallman" in the past month, since your link was posted. I found 3 pro-Stallman articles (and no anti-Stallman ones): https://meribold.org/2021/04/07/critique-of-rms-open-letter/ https://meribold.org/2021/04/07/critique-of-rms-open-letter/ https://www.fsf.org/news/statement-of-fsf-board-on-election-of-richard-stallman https://www.fsf.org/news/statement-of-fsf-board-on-election-... https://stallman.org/articles/dr-stallman.html https://stallman.org/articles/dr-stallman.html That brings our total to 16 negative and 11 positive, or 1.5 anti-Stallman articles per pro-Stallman articles. (60% anti-Stallman.) Weighted by the number of comments, there are 378 more comments on the links you provided.