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I wonder if it correlates with a /general/ loss of traffic. Personally I find the comments section to be less accepting of more classes of opinions each year.

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The number of comments per month continues to grow linearly, while the number of stories remains roughly constant for several years:

https://sql.clickhouse.com/play?user=play#U0VMRUNUIHRvU3Rhcn...

Thanks for sharing this! Grouping by year, it looks like stories peaked in 2020 but comments continued to grow.

I am curious if the growth in comment count could be correlated with factors like more downvoted/hidden comments, more new comment-only reddit style users, more back and forth argument comments etc. or if it is genuinely healthy community growth.

I categorically reject this opinion.

I think political statements like yours should be banned from HN. This is not what this site is about.

What is political about "categorically reject"?

The funniest part about a thread like the above is that it's virtually impossible to tell if a given comment was made as a joke

poe's law to the rescue

Nathan, Edgar Allan or Cameron?

Power-over-Ethernet obviously.

Hmmm what could possibly fnordpiglet meant when he said what he said... but then again, each consecutive comment may or may not have been serious. Including this one.

Categorical rejection is an ideological overessentialization which seeks to create an other to function as a target of not only division and ridicule but to function normatively to buttress an existing predominant neoliberal self-narrative. </zizek>

That reflects what's happening in society so it shouldn't be surprising

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