Hacker News Em Dash Usage Leaderboard: Top 50 Users Before ChatGPT Release
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Summary
A leaderboard ranking the top 50 Hacker News users by their usage of em dashes (—) in posts before ChatGPT's release on November 30, 2022. The content serves as a statistical analysis of writing style patterns within the Hacker News community.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledTop 50 users by number of posts containing em dashes (—) before November 30, 2022, when ChatGPT was released
Another, more complete version of this leaderboard is here
And the HN discussion about this leaderboard is here
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