Comment by ranger_danger

a very very quick copy/paste of 73 comments there - fed to claude with a basic "characterize+count comments" give me 70% neutral/technical, 14% positive, 16% negative.

claude also said "The negative comments tend to be more substantive critiques of systems or research approaches rather than personal attacks." - so... that's good? :-)

I've done it before on large threads. Neutral sentiment tends to dominate at roughly 50% but negative sentiment is much higher than positive sentiment. Negative sentiment is also higher if you just take the highest ranked comments.

It's actually quite stark looking at it this way and makes me question how healthy it is to use this site as often as I do. Fully aware that we're also piling on the negative sentiment.