Goes to show that nailing down the 'HN crowd' opinion is more difficult than it seems!

Interesting observation, I have noticed too that contradictory opinions are very frequent. My completely subjective impression has been that there is a loud contingent that just likes to have a contradictory opinion, a form of mansplaining that is frequent in engineering circles. Or maybe it’s just that people in general are driven to give their opinion on things they disagree with.

> people in general are driven to give their opinion on things they disagree with

I’m definitely more likely to reply when I disagree than when I agree.

I do try to make a habit of giving positive replies also (and not just building on what was said before, as I’m doing here, nor just upvote silently), as constant contrarianism is… kinda dull, especially from the outside.

What does gender have to do with here?

Try "condescend".

Eurosplaining

Different time zones maybe, or weekday vs. weekend.

This would suggest that HN is not immune from addiction to outrage culture.

Hacker News isn't a hive mind and different people have different opinions.

The two threads are talking past each other, not really debating the same thing. This thread is pretty much ignoring the potential unreasonableness of storing 5 million files on a free/cheap cloud service without other backups, which is key point over there. The other thread is mostly ignoring the fact that Google seems to have imposed this limit arbitrarily and without notice, possibly causing data loss, which is the key point here.

Shows the power of framing -- focusing on different components of the same situation and facts can often lead to entirely opposite opinions or conclusions.

Also shows the “power” of whatever the top/first post was about, that topic will be framing the conversation.

I agree, to the point that very frequently I just collapse the top comment immediately upon arriving on the HN discussion page because I want to get more perspective.

Very true, I agree - but before there's a comment, there's a headline.

"5M item limit for Google Drive: File unable to generate or upload due to 503" (mostly passive, it's a user problem) vs "Google Drive does a surprise rollout of file limits, locking out some users" (Evil Google secretly screwing customers over)

5M files. Pfft.

If your cloud storage account can’t gracefully handle that and keep that handling totally transparent to you you should move on.

I’m sure there must be some provider out there that can handle that uninteresting workload …