Comment by bruce511

It is human nature, yes, but equally bad ideas outweigh good ideas.

We all have lots of ideas. Most are bad. The worst are easily self-evaluated and discarded.

The next layer are the ones that are bad, but -you- haven't figured out why yet. The best thing here is to bounce them off others to see if they can spot the flaw.

If you don't do this, or you ignore it, then you build something, it doesn't matter how well you built it, it's still bad. Lots of stuff on HN falls into this category.

Some tiny portion of ideas are good. But then execution matters (a lot). Like maybe someone else has done it already. Or your execution has bad UI or whatever.

Lastly, no idea is good for everyone, no product is executed to everyone's taste. There is always some quota to ehom it doesn't apply.

And thats before we get to tribal reflexes (me and mine are better than you and yours) - like the endless Linux, Windows, Mac comments.

Tldr; there are more negative comments because there are more bad ideas ranging good ideas.

PS - having bad ideas, badly executing them, and seeing it get killed are all fine. We call that experience.