I think many home nodes are on old spare hardware, so its not that surprising. But I too answered yes even though I run a fully public full node too. So its maybe a bit skewed.

I'm surprised that the poll has more than 50% saying they prune (at 23 responses). I didn't think it was that common. 

I think that many people just go with defaults, and last time I checked core has a popup on ibd that says do you wanna prune?

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I think the hate is aimed at the virtue signaling of "I'm running a node" when it's pruned or firewalled or tor-only, because if everyone would do that then there wouldn't be a network.

But there are definite scenarios in which you'll want to run a pruned node - based on personal circumstance. So don't feel hated just because there are haters. If everyone is sovereign then there is free choice, though it would be awful if there is tragedy of the commons on archival node slots. So if you 

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Have you ever run a pruned node?

I think the hate is aimed at the virtue signaling of "I'm running a node" when it's pruned or firewalled or tor-only, because if everyone would do that then there wouldn't be a network.

But there are definite scenarios in which you'll want to run a pruned node - based on personal circumstance. So don't feel hated just because there are haters. If everyone is sovereign then there is free choice, though it would be awful if there is tragedy of the commons on archival node slots. So if you **can** run a full node, run that.