I lurked around HN for a long time before making my first comment. It's the first community that made me realize the potential and extent of massive misinformat

I lurked around HN for a long time before making my first comment. It's the first community that made me realize the potential and extent of massive misinformation on the Internet. It also raised my awareness about my own biases and common fallacies. But I personally have never had a sense of "community" from these parts. I value the information and discussions because it's rare on the Internet to come across a group of people that are so focused on keeping each other in check when it comes to facts. It's full of contrarians. It's like an automatic mental mechanism for many here. Articles and comments are challenged sometimes seemingly as a simple intellectual exercise. It does force you, the spectator to realize that the coin truly has two sides (sometimes more). The bs filter on HN is also relatively high, when compared to other places on the Internet. As you can expect, that leaves little room for the warm and fuzzy tolerance that one has to display in a friendly community where people's beliefs are respected. The "well, actually" is strong in HN.