> You and I seem largely in agreement, but I wonder if we agree on how well we here at HN, as a community, execute these principles. In my experiences, most peo

> You and I seem largely in agreement, but I wonder if we agree on how well we here at HN, as a community, execute these principles. In my experiences, most people are "not very fond" of even discussing the topic. My feelings are people here will tolerate a few anecdotes (as long as you're not pushing it as absolute truth) but generally if you post appeals to nature, appeals to popularity etc. it'll be challenged and downvoted pretty quick. Certain topics seem worse than others though e.g. eating meat, x10 programmers, job interview processes and programming language comparison topics are full of anecdotes and fallacies with bold statements.