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Re:Nearly half of Bay Area residents say they want to leave by dang on Sunday June 03, 2018 @07:41PM (#17223196)
It's the contrarian dynamic: people are motivated to post objections to what they disagree with or dislike. Then other people are motivated by those comments to comment the reverse way, i.e. to object to the objections.
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Re:Nearly half of Bay Area residents say they want to leave by overeater on Sunday June 03, 2018 @09:36PM (#17223804)
It's the same for many other things on Hacker News. Where it seems like everyone is dissatisfied with higher education, or the federal government, or the evil large tech companies.
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Re:Nearly half of Bay Area residents say they want to leave by dang on Sunday June 03, 2018 @10:44PM (#17224157)
It's unfortunate because it leads to the impression of a "strong negativity bias", which is true in a Cunningham's law sense but gets complicated because people also negate the negativity: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16677130. It's quite typical for top comments to be objections of the form "I can't believe the comments here are so negative!"

The contrarian dynamic is particularly visible in political threads: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15701584.

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Re:Nearly half of Bay Area residents say they want to leave by vinayak147 on Monday June 04, 2018 @12:16AM (#17224571)
Reminds me of the enantiodromia principle as popularized by Carl Jung.
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