Not in the mainstream? Okhabaren!

Interesting vesch. Analyzed the popularity of comments and came to disappointing conclusions.

Mainstream is power.

The disadvantages are those whose point of view differs from the bulk of the others. Of course, it all depends on how you present your idea. And minus those who immediately (albeit with arguments) wrote: "Your Gauno is not our example!".
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So, in principle, most of the users of Habr prefer MySQL, although the stump is clear, PostgreSQL is much cooler in terms of bells and whistles. So, for example, my comment : “It is useless with MySQL. Here is a postgres, yes, thing. A lot of funds are already ready. ”Earned the maximum number of minuses (4 pieces). There are two reasons for this phenomenon:

• The number of musculators is more than the number of elephants
• Minus more than put pros

The second is worth more details. This is psychology. If a person has a negative attitude, he will react with 100% probability (in this case, he will put a minus), and, depending on the degree of “hitting” on “him,” he can make super-efforts (more often, he will lower karma). If the commentary is positive in terms of attitude to a person’s worldview, then he will not exert super-efforts purely by nature, “everything is so good”. Those. in the first case, we have a negative environment with which the body “craves” to fight, and in the second, the environment is favorable, and, in principle, it does not make sense to do anything.

Of course, there are exceptions. For example, "holivary", but to bring this state "favorable" does not turn the language. There are no winners in the war.

As a result, I would like to express my opinion on the ratings. Negative ratings should have a much smaller impact than positive ones, because it is easier to earn a negative, as I described above. On Habré now the situation is different. Well, these are just thoughts. :)

UPD : Top with the largest number of references to habraetika : D