Habr post: A/BDSM and polls

Published: 2025-09-05

A note with an openly provocative title came out — I played on the theme of controlling bots under the guise of "BDSM" and immediately wrote in the teaser that the goal was a survey. In the text I explained the idea of BDMS/ADSM and set up a small A/B test of the title through voting.

It turned into a light, mischievous experiment: three downvotes for the article and one downvote to karma — a modest result for such a stunt. The reads were few: half as many as about AI and almost ten times fewer than the technical notes on JavaScript.

Ten people took part in each poll. For the "own" instruction, six chose ADSM and four — BDSM. For the "foreign" instruction the ratio was seven to three in favor of ADSM. A small but telling statistic.