Most popular links in Hacker News comments, 2006–2015
It is strongly worth nothing that there has been a shift in comment sentiment/quality over the years. In early HN, comments were more hostile and would definitely be killed by the modern mod team. (it's where the HN stereotypes originated)<p>See my old list of the Top Comments for each month of HN since 2006 and note the difference between the old comments and recent comments: <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZwonVX_KlDYhuhPnAAnVpdVRgu4LxldP74-c_kvOd5k/" rel="nofollow">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZwonVX_KlDYhuhPnAAnV...</a><p>At the least, there is no situation nowadays on HN where commenting with <a href="http://xkcd.com/386/" rel="nofollow">http://xkcd.com/386/</a> would be considered appropriate.