HN Opinion Diversity

This cluster centers on debates about the diversity of opinions among Hacker News commenters, challenging generalizations about a monolithic 'HN crowd,' groupthink, and community biases.

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US AI HN POV FUD newsguidelines.html ycombinator.com algolia.com hn hn crowd commenters rand crowd like hn different people posts comments subset

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idonotknowwhy Dec 5, 2023 View on HN

It's different people commenting on these issues within HN

underdeserver Jan 1, 2021 View on HN

What does this say about commenters on HN?

theGnuMe Jan 17, 2023 View on HN

Commenters on HN like to push their own agendas.

threevox Mar 8, 2021 View on HN

How is it possible that a HN user espouses views like this

yardie Feb 10, 2017 View on HN

My apologies. I thought you were being facetious. Loads of posters on HN are when if it doesn't conform to their own world view.

AngrySkillzz Feb 23, 2021 View on HN

Yeah, people on HN are kind of cranks about this sort of thing

dang Jan 20, 2021 View on HN

Please don't break the site guidelines like this.https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.htmlThis sort of perception is notoriously unreliable and is pretty much entirely in the eye of the beholder. The majority of comments in this thread, and basically every other HN thread on the topic, are not at all as you describe.

BeFlatXIII Apr 6, 2022 View on HN

It's almost like there are multiple users with differing views on HN

passwordreset Feb 9, 2015 View on HN

The "HN crowd" consists of more than one person and can therefore have more than one opinion. Surprise!

revscat Jan 7, 2016 View on HN

Stop. There are no "HN people". There are people who post to HN, but the opinions are for the most part surprisingly varied. You are shooting yourself in the foot by making over-generalized comments like this.