The Quality, Popularity, and Negativity of 5.6 Million Hacker News Comments
Hopefully, these comments will answer whether Hacker News is experiencing a rise in quality, or if the complaints levied against HN are valid.
Hopefully, these comments will answer whether Hacker News is experiencing a rise in quality, or if the complaints levied against HN are valid.
It can be proven that language has a strong statistical effect on review ratings, but that is intuitive enough. How have review ratings changed?
The FCC released a dataset of about 450,000 comments against net neutrality. Looking at the data behind these comments, it is clear to see that the entire country is passionate against the rule changes to net neutrality.
Saying that the results were surprising would be the understatement of the century.
Did this feature help or harm Show HN submissions as a whole?