My impression is that HN readers write more intelligent and critical comments than other places. I gave up on Slashdot back in 1999 because, back then, I was

My impression is that HN readers write more intelligent and critical comments than other places. I gave up on Slashdot back in 1999 because, back then, I was somewhat aware of what was to be biggest drop event for domain names in history. A certain story was a link to a clueless article about the topic, and the comments were dominated by people who knew nothing but sounded authoritative, so they were getting their comments voted up. Then I thought about it and realized that the information I had was commercially valuable, why the hell would I share it with a bunch of people who couldn't tell right information from wrong information. The drop event came, our detection system worked, and we grabbed 6000 names that we wanted before anybody else.