Pretty much every article on HN that is even slightly negative about Wikipedia, Apple, or whatever is the topic of the day devolves into a hatejerk. I've noted

Pretty much every article on HN that is even slightly negative about Wikipedia, Apple, or whatever is the topic of the day devolves into a hatejerk. I've noted this before [0] and it won't end as long as HN keeps being an echo chamber. From browsing HN you'd think Apple completely tanked with the new Macbook and their other controversial changes, but they just had a record quarter. I notice this on sites like reddit and HN a lot, people spread these memes of how a company should function or rather doesn't and they consider themselves the most informed target audience for that company even if it couldn't be further from the truth. Even in this very thread I see so much misinformation about how Wikipedia works and how it's being overrun with deletionists, yet anyone participating in the site could tell you that these fears are overblown. (in fact, in my three years of editing, I've found it harder to actually delete stuff because of inclusionists and random keepers) People just want to say "ackshually, nice thing isn't nice because x...". I'm not going to bother commenting elsewhere in this thread because it gets tiring, but people really need to actually try understanding Wikipedia themselves before repeating misinformation about it again and again. Nearly every thread on HN about Wikipedia is about people crying about that their article with no sources at all got deleted in favor of a popular culture topic that is meticulously sourced. Yet they also complain about Wikipedia being unreliable and biased. You can't have your cake and eat it too, either demand quality controls or create your own fork which has no controls at all and watch what happens to it. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13624239 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13624239