This is fascinating, because there was a post a little while back proposing the opposite effect, titled "the default position of HN is skepticism". Here it is:

This is fascinating, because there was a post a little while back proposing the opposite effect, titled "the default position of HN is skepticism". Here it is: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1629583 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1629583