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You're deriving 'controversy' and then something about the preferences of forum participants as a whole from the small vote changes (ending with a non-downvoted
by pvg 2y ago
You're deriving 'controversy' and then something about the preferences of forum participants as a whole from the small vote changes (ending with a non-downvoted comment!) of a tropey, generic comment in reply to a very tropey bombastic comment.
I don't think you can really do that accurately from those inputs.
- fsflover 2y ago> (ending with a non-downvoted comment!) Only after I had to comment asking for reasons. Also, it's not the first time, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43379510 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43379510. > tropey, generic comment I don't see how it's generic. It's about one specific example of a general trend.
- fsflover 2y agoAnother example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43402696 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43402696