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I think that puts too much faith in the average person

>>ChrisR+(OP)
But it’s exactly the right expectation for a Hacker News comment. Already HN excels because comments avoid auto-outrage and meme-commentary.

>>ChrisR+(OP)
Not to obnoxiously gatekeep too much, but I'd like to think that the target demograph of hacker news is not the average pleb.

>>dr_dsh+x
How high the comment quality here usually is becomes really noticeable when it's lacking under a post. The most common offenders are political posts with outrage potential, especially while knee-jerk responses are flooding in and before measured comments have had time to rise to the top.

Recent example was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33931384 about cash limits - Sooo many comments are just "Tyranny!", "EU bad!" and overall unmitigated cynicism.

>>yccs27+Wd
Their posts has same attitude like yours against those posts.