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Re:The Saltiest Users on HN by thisisit on Thursday April 18, 2019 @01:21PM (#19692865)
My guess is pg_is_a_butt gets enough salt from his username.

But this got me curious. Who are the sweetest users?

And what kind of topics generate most salt? This will be interesting because there has been a general trend on HN where people bemoan "HN hates X" with X being cryptocurrency, Tesla, new starts on Show HN.

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Re:The Saltiest Users on HN by Kassius509 on Saturday April 20, 2019 @07:36PM (#19709597)
Actually, username & story titles aren't included in the model. We may experiment with including them in the future but for now we left them out to avoid any undo bias.

Sweetest users is a good question. I'll have to build out that view some time.

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Re:The Saltiest Users on HN by krapp on Thursday April 18, 2019 @05:23PM (#19694919)
>And what kind of topics generate most salt?

politics, gender, race, theoretical physics (particularly dark matter) and javascript.

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