There's a difference between dissing HN as a whole, and dissing the growing subset of the userbase that has lowered the technical content of the site and decrea

There's a difference between dissing HN as a whole, and dissing the growing subset of the userbase that has lowered the technical content of the site and decreased the civility and level of discourse. That, or you mods aren't doing your job in keeping this site sufficiently attractive to hackers--if you were, threads like this wouldn't be necessary. The first step to solving a problem dang is admitting you have a problem.