[user_named]

Where's the data to support that opinion

[jsnell]

What opinion? It's a statement of fact, not an opinion. The flameware detector is a well-documented and old HN feature:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

[tlb]

All the data is available at https://news.ycombinator.com/.

As a suggested experiment, randomly select 25 stories with comments>votes, and 25 stories with votes>comments. Go through the comments on those 50 stories and score them for flamewarishness. It's probably a half day's work. 50 stories * 3 minutes each for scoring, plus some time for the random sampling and stats.

You could present the data as a plot of your subjective flamewar score vs. log(votes/comments)

[tobr]

Where’s the data to support the opinion that opinions should be supported by data