Reddit has the same phenomenon where the audience doing the upvotes is very different to the audience posting comments. As I'm in the second group I would love to say it's because people who read comments are smarter than those who just look at the main content. Smarter or not it's a different userbase and it creates some conflict.
r/museum and all the softcore porn
Goomba fallacy
thank you, nice to put a name to this phenomenon
Does it also apply to the case where you have a single number: upvotes minus downvotes?
huh?
Seems like the divide between the voters who vote in the Primaries and the voters who vote in the actual Election. Vocal minority vs. Silent majority.
I can't say I've seen the same universally, but, if it is s trend, it would seem one invites discussion between humans on the site while the other seeks to minimize it.
Most of the responses here are negative. Seems consistent.
Different posts on HN can attract different audiences.
It's because it's a novel solution to "I lost my phone".
HN isn’t a monolithic bloc. A good part of the HN audience is very pro AI, another part is very skeptical. You have enough of each group to promote both sides. If HN posts could be downvoted things might bend hard one direction but with only upvotes you get a mix