Online discourse sample, NOT a poll

{
  "q": "tabs or spaces for indentation",
  "sides": "tabs,spaces"
}

{
  "asOf": "2026-10-13T05:00:00.000Z",
  "cached": false,
  "caveats": [
    "Not a poll: self-selected posters on two tech-leaning, US-heavy networks; not representative of any population.",
    "Keyword search misses posts that use other words and can include off-topic posts.",
    "Bots, coordinated posting and brigading can move the numbers; one-vote-per-account and per-thread caps only reduce this.",
    "Stance labels come from an automated classifier and are sometimes wrong (sarcasm, quotes, negation)."
  ],
  "classifier": "none (illustrative)",
  "illustrative": true,
  "label": "online discourse sample, NOT a poll",
  "method": "Keyword search of public Hacker News comments (Algolia) and Bluesky posts within the window; one post per account, at most 10 per thread; each post (truncated to 280 chars, never returned) is labeled with one side or neutral by a stance classifier; shares are over decided posts with Wilson 95% intervals. Deleted links are removed from the sample, also when a cached answer is served (shares and n are not recomputed).",
  "n_classified": 84,
  "n_fetched": 145,
  "n_neutral": 61,
  "note": "Format sample only: counts are illustrative, NOT measured. No stance classifier is configured on this server yet, so no real answer has been recorded; this sample will be replaced by a real recording. No post text or usernames are ever returned.",
  "ok": true,
  "question": "tabs or spaces for indentation",
  "sample": [],
  "sides": [
    {
      "ci95": [
        0.3171,
        0.5235
      ],
      "label": "tabs",
      "n": 35,
      "share": 0.4167
    },
    {
      "ci95": [
        0.4765,
        0.6829
      ],
      "label": "spaces",
      "n": 49,
      "share": 0.5833
    }
  ],
  "source": "discourse-split",
  "sources": {
    "bsky": 32,
    "hn": 52
  },
  "window": {
    "days": 30,
    "from": "2026-09-13T05:00:00.000Z",
    "to": "2026-10-13T05:00:00.000Z"
  }
}