I have since lost faith.
HN likes to masquerade as some sort of upscale establishment, high and above the petty squabbles of Eslewhere, but in the end this place too devolves into a predictable echo chamber just like the rest of them, when it comes to any topic on which people have varied opinions.
This is not a place for dissenting views (such as this comment). This community does not brook any disagreement, because this service is not designed for it.
This did not happen overnight; for more than a year I have been watching perfectly fine comments getting buried in the gray for not siding with the prevailing mob on divisive topics. Even neutral, soft-spoken stances get struck down.
One can now reliably predict what the majority of comments are going to be like, just by reading the title of a post.
I've brought this up several times with dang, but apparently you're not able to appreciate these problems until you try participating as a regular user.
And let's not even mention the awful UI design with its vendetta against eyes, low light and small screens.
HN is broken, and one of the major indicators of a broken service is a tone-deaf management who continues to insist that everything is Working As Intended.
HN is like an Ivy League freshman class. Most of the kids are smart, opinionated and sure they will rule the world some day.Many have some pretty nice accomplishments. But you scratch below the surface and you will notice they are also just a bunch of kids: insecure,especially about their intelligence,they take themselves way too seriously, love one-up each other and beyond their close area of knowledge they have painfully naive//cliche views.
Dont take this site too seriously, especially since in the last 2-3 years it has been infested with "guerilla marketers"