Hacker News as a case study to test the wisdom of the crowd theory

Re:Hacker News as a case study to test the wisdom of the cro... by Rambunctious on Monday October 19, 2015 @09:07AM (#10412610)

Is there any data file to show what comment has been marked as positive or negative?

For example, if you look at the Quora thread ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1197146 ), a comment could say something good about the site and also provide some feedback (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1197230).

Is this comment marked positive or negative? If feedback is somehow clubbed with negative comments, I would doubt the accuracy of the analysis.

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Re:Hacker News as a case study to test the wisdom of the cro... by josefresco on Monday October 19, 2015 @09:55AM (#10412894)

I had this same thought - as many times I comment and then realize that it could be "taken" several ways.

It also amuses me to no end that someone is collecting and analyzing data from HN based (in part) on my sometimes idiotic comments and silly debates with Internet strangers.

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