[cgriswald]

I believe A is great. I'm far less likely to notice or click on an article that starts with "A is great" than I am "A sucks". I usually don't care why other people think A is great, but I am curious why someone thinks it sucks (regardless of the ultimate value of their complaints). So there's a sort of psychological effect that I just don't notice "A is great" articles. My subsequent behavior convinces algorithms I want to see less "A is great" and more "A sucks" which not only seems to be a desired result, but reinforces my behavior.

The way out seems obvious. Either actually stop caring about why people think A sucks or to curtail my curiosity and stop clicking on the "A sucks" articles; and to care more about why people think A is great or at least click on the articles.

[starttoaster]

Yeah I understand where you're coming from with the psychological effect. I actually noticed a trend of more pro-Go articles on here within the past couple of weeks, and have clicked on them. But historically the topic of an article I click on will be about something like the AWS SDK, and the comment section will be about how Go is trash. Though, I'm sure there's also a fair amount of the exact psychological effect/bias dilemma you're referring to as well.