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

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

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

  • Issue dependent.