Comment by joshstrange

Hmm, I went looking for a comment [0] I made "sometime last year" talking about what does/doesn't get upvoted on HN, I finally found it, I made the comment 9 years ago (I literally stared at the date for a good few minutes, I thought it was much more recent) where I did a short analysis on my own comments over the previous 2 years (at that time) which sort of shows the opposite of what I've said (reviewing the comments I linked), only a few of them were short/snarky/pithy, most were not novels but were a little more fleshed out.

That said, I haven't done sentiment analysis on those or more recent comments but my guess is that "negative" comments get more upvotes

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13491266