Not only unpopular opinions, but since here on hn we can receive down-votes for &quot;low quality&quot; comments, people who are not native english speakers might shy away from expressing their views (I speak from my own perspective here). I often find that anglophones can have lengthy posts ranting about the same stuff over and over, but when non english natives comment they tend to be more concise and thoughtful. I&#x27;m actually kind off miss grammatically incorrect sentences that have a valid point, those are much more common on other forums, in those cases the person didn&#x27;t had to feel pressure to be down-voted just for bad grammar.