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I wish this absolutely ridiculous, unthinking trope of treating communities of thousands of people as one mind that’s only allowed to have one opinion would finally stop.

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but reading the comments, they mostly fall in to one of these two buckets...

in consensus based communities that only show you a reality based on what comments people upvote, it is not ridiculous at all

when a different community would have completely different sentiment

it is reflective of the audience

Yeah, there is a reason HN has a certain reputation, and Twitter has a different one, and Reddit (or certain subreddits, rather) has an entirely different one. At some point, by comparing the aggregate trends, you definitely can put communities into different camps.

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