Well, "rude" is the clear winner, with 54 occurrences (and one "intentionally rude"). Runners-up: harsh 21 ("overly harsh": 2; "t

Well, "rude" is the clear winner, with 54 occurrences (and one "intentionally rude"). Runners-up: harsh 21 ("overly harsh": 2; "too harsh: 1) negative 13 ("unduly negative": 1; "completely negative": 1; "overly negative": 2; "negative Nancy": 2; "too negative": 2; "totally negative": 2; "intentionally negative": 1) snarky 12 overly critical 11 ("too critical": 3; "critical": 3) Other common phrases: an ass 8 pedantic 8 argumentative 8 insulting 6 a downer 6 ("(a) Debbie Downer": 2; "down": 1) dismissive 6 flippant 6 ("flip": 3) offensive 7 ("blatantly offensive": 1) cynical 5 ("overly cynical": 1) condescending 5 glib 5 a jerk 5 mean 4 pessimistic 4 ("overly pessimistic": 1) that guy 4 crass 3 curt 3 a hater 3 disrespectful 3 patronizing 3 presumptuous 3 nit-picky / nitpicky 3 Terms that were only used twice: obnoxious, picky, insensitive ("culturally insensitive": 1), discouraging, crude, impolite, preachy, a tease, adversarial, coy. HN has quite the vocabulary. There's a long tail of single occurrences: meta (ed: ha-ha), naive, cheeky, shortsighted, dumb, hasty, racist (ed: surprising!), stuffy, demeaning, snide, dense, nasty, personal, unhelpful, contrary, contentious, fanboyish, cold, doom-and-gloom, frivolous, facile, accusatory, callous, lame, inflammatory, hating, ironic, skeptical, trolling, trollish, patronizing, spiteful, sexist, disagreeable, controversial, simple, overly reductionist, hard on Aussies (ed: chuckle), antagonistic, off-topic, crabby, crude, derogative (ed: think they meant derogatory), passing absolute judgement, an idiot, an alarmist, an insensitive dick, a curmudgeon, an HN curmudgeon, a troll, a jackass, a tweak, a word Nazi (ed: surely not), a grumpy gus, a dick, a total dick, a stickler, a hardass, a killjoy, a huge downer, a turd, a burden, the grumpy skeptic ... ...and my personal favorite: "the next snarky Lisp guy in the room". There were about 7 other things roughly fitting the pattern here, but not quite within the spirit of the rest: e.g., "trashing Ballmer", or "overly favorable towards Google". Quoted text was ignored where possible; instances of "or", as in, "insensitive or rude", counted as a point for each, except for "or anything", which was ignored. Terms were very lightly massaged, for example, "so callous" would have counted simply as "callous".