I've spent a fair amount of time on HN (especially yesterday) trying to respond to threads with verifiable facts and evidence, and as positive tone as I could m

I've spent a fair amount of time on HN (especially yesterday) trying to respond to threads with verifiable facts and evidence, and as positive tone as I could muster even when responding to people with a very argumentative tone. I would like to think that was helpful, and was disheartened to see such a degradation in the quality of discourse today. Thanks dang for your doing your part to make things better, and I implore readers of the site to do your best to spread facts not misinformation, and engage in constructive conversation.