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Ask HN: What's the ratio of blind ideologues to detached prognosticators on HN?

by I_DRINK_KOOLAID on 5/9/22, 2:05 PM with 6 comments

• by incomingpain on 5/9/22, 2:35 PM

  Instead of trying to argue for the point, take it from a point of view of trying to be a teacher and everyone reading your post is a student.

  Only ideologues are going to demand phd thesis levels of sourcing for an anonymous forum; but if you source well enough... this ratio becomes unimportant.

• by Bostonian on 5/9/22, 2:12 PM

  I don't know, but the ratio will be much higher when judged by others than with self-identification. No one considers himself an ideologue. Also, people on the right (left) are more likely to identify people on the left (right) as ideologues.

• by potta_coffee on 5/9/22, 2:53 PM

  It depends. Are we discussing Rust? Microservices? Or Climate Change? Other topics attract fewer flies.

• by DaveFr on 5/9/22, 3:53 PM

  1:1, as in, every commentator is both. And we usually don't know which we are.

• by h2odragon on 5/9/22, 2:13 PM

  Issue dependent.