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by politician 85 days ago
This is great. I've soured on this site over the past few years due to the heavy partisanship that wasn't as present in the early days (eternal September), but there are still quite a few people whose opinions remain thought-provoking and insightful. I'm going to use this corpus to make a local self-hosted version of HN with the ability to a) show inline article summaries and b) follow those folks.
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"heavy partisanship" - I've seen this claim a few times and I find it a bit odd. Certainly I feel HN leans left, but I've never seen what I would consider a strong preference for any particular political party? When the American daggers do come out - it seems fairly split? Even the post about the Canadian meta data law the other day, left leaning maybe, but I see when partisan comments came out directly, it looked about even?
I think we'll be able to quantify sentiment from the data, and I look forward to doing so. There's a few other datasets that I want to look at such as whether there is evidence of participation suppression via rate limiting on a per-profile basis.
If you do an investigation, I'd be genuinely curious what you find, I obviously have a tiny sample size, I use this site a lot, for a long time, as have you, so maybe you're right! :)