Agreed -- I've always enjoyed my debates with you. I'd go so far as to say I sort of miss them. But I've now grown so frustrated by the pedantic replies that

Agreed -- I've always enjoyed my debates with you. I'd go so far as to say I sort of miss them. But I've now grown so frustrated by the pedantic replies that I get on HN nowadays that I've had to start deleting my comments after I write them. And I've stopped visiting as often because it takes too much effort to write a response that I feel avoids the trollish responses I fear I will get. One of the final straws for me was when the title of my submission about being replaced as CEO was changed -- a topic of significant relevance to this audience I think. What frustrated me most was that I had picked a useful title and the not only was the new title worse in my eyes, but it was surrounded by rather inane posts about the "top X reasons for Y" or something about Apple or Google. It just didn't add up for me. And on a tactical level, there is unquestionably a tendency for people to respond to the top post rather than start a new top-level thread. The lack of collapsing of threads is quite frustrating on long topics. For now, I'm mostly done here.