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One question, asked in the same three words about every subject in the pool.
Hate or Celebrate is a public sentiment index. It holds a pool of divisive subjects — a food, a garment, a habit, a piece of software — and asks one question about each of them, in the same three words, every time.
Nothing here is a headline about a person. The pool is deliberately made of things, which is what keeps a site about hating and celebrating from becoming a site about someone.
A subject is drawn from the pool. You press one of three buttons, or the keys 1, 2 and 3. The vote is written to this site's own table and the split for that subject is recalculated and returned immediately — which is why the bars move the instant you answer.
No account is created and no profile is kept. The server does record the requesting address so it can rate-limit a flood of votes; the privacy page covers what is stored and why.
The board's one number is the net: the celebrate share minus the hate share, in points. A subject at +40 is celebrated four times to one against a subject at −40 only in the loosest sense — the figure is a distance from even, not a rating. Zero is genuine disagreement, and the spread chart exists so the crowded middle is visible rather than buried in the middle of a list.
It is not a poll. Votes are deduplicated only by that rate limit, so the totals are a running tally of what the page has been shown, not a representative sample of anybody.
There is no page per subject, no embeddable badge, no weekly movers report, no submission form and no versioned record of method changes. Those are on the list; none of them are live, and this page will say so until they are.