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Re:Most of what you read on the internet is written by insan... by forgingahead on Friday January 01, 2021 @12:54AM (#25601226)
Happy New Year @dang! Thanks for all your hard work as always.

Thanks for sharing these stats -- seems like HN is similar to other internet communities. 2% covering 83% of all comments is certainly pretty skewed. I do notice a tussle over upvotes/downvotes when making comments that might be against the HN vocal orthodoxy, so maybe that's where the silent majority make themselves heard? Via upvotes/downvotes?

What percentage of uniques have accounts here? Would be interesting to know if commenters are also a minority of total lurkers.

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Re:Most of what you read on the internet is written by insan... by dang on Friday January 01, 2021 @01:44AM (#25601387)
I commented about this sometime in the last year. Let me see if my search fu can dig up the post...

Edit: I was about to plead too much beer, but https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... delivered. This is the post I was thinking of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22622983.

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