Agree with your comment. Even on opinion articles HN often offers greater value than many other sites. Of course there can still be a lot of vitriol. HN is also

Agree with your comment. Even on opinion articles HN often offers greater value than many other sites. Of course there can still be a lot of vitriol. HN is also criticised for being an echo chamber. Well, when a site becomes popular, your users will always be between a representative sample of society (and will be hard to avoid vitriol), and a particular group of people (and you will end up with an echo chamber). Of course there might be a lot of things to improve, but I think it's unfair to criticise HN when it's doing much better than many other sites. Well, maybe the article doesn't even get to that, but I have this feeling of misplaced blame. The real problem lies in society, not in the website. There's no shortcut to education...