[dylan604]

The sentiment issue is a curious one to me. For example, a lot of humans I interact with that are not devs take my direct questioning or critical responses to be "negative" when there is no negative intent at all. Pointing out something doesn't work or anything that the dev community encounters on a daily basis isn't an immediate negative sentiment but just pointing out the issues. Is it a meme-like helicopter parent constantly doling out praise positive so that anything differing shows negativity? Not every piece of art needs to be hung on the fridge door, and providing constructive criticism for improvement is oh so often framed as negative. That does the world no favors.

Essentially, I'm not familiar with HuggingFace or any models in this regard. But if they are trained from the socials, then it seems skewed from the start to me.

Also, fully aware that this comment will probably be viewed as negative based on stated assumptions.

edit: reading further down the comments, clearly I'm not the first with these sentiments.

[uyzstvqs]

Speaking from experience, debate is easily misread as negative arguing by outsiders, even though all involved parties are enjoying challenging each other's ideas.

[wilsonzlin]

You may be right, a more tailored classifier for HN comments specifically may be more accurate. It'd be interesting to consider the classes: would it still be simply positive/negative? Perhaps constructive/unconstructive? Usefulness? Something more along the lines of HN guidelines?

[prox]

Just one point of note : people are FAR more likely to respond and take to writing to something negative than positive. I don’t know the exact numbers but it just engages people more. People just don’t pick up the pen to write how good something is as much.

[flawsofar]

Every helicopter gets a trophy

[dylan604]

wait, the parents get a trophy?