Open-letter: Did hackernews become hateboard?

Re:Open-letter: Did hackernews become hateboard? by _delirium on Monday March 26, 2012 @08:02AM (#3756222)

I did a spot-check of what's currently on the frontpage of HN, and where there are clear sentiments expressed about a project, they seem to have a reasonable distribution of positive/negative, with more positive. Obviously this probably varies day to day, so more data would be needed to draw conclusions.

Projects with mainly positive comments currently:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3755656

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3754561

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3754108

Mixed comments on this one:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3755276

Mainly negative:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3752447

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3755574

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Re:Open-letter: Did hackernews become hateboard? by devrim on Monday March 26, 2012 @11:00AM (#3756978)

i also don't think everything gets negative comments.

it's the 'new' stuff (idea/startup/concept, not funny/interesting links). just based on your links, you'd notice 'mainly negative' ones are 'new' stuff. positive ones are bash, excel spreadsheet, notepad++ etc.

if PG built and posted one of his 'ambitious ideas' here (http://d.pr/if1q), say he made his new email program, i bet the most upvoted comment would be like;

"... gmail does many of those things and already has X,Y,Z ... do you have any brains at all to understand email protocol is A,B,C ... you better spend your time doing research/study/..."

this is what i'm seeing over and over again.

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