Ooor instead of responding only to people's emotions and trying to control them, you could respond to the content of their post and admit they have a point. We

Ooor instead of responding only to people's emotions and trying to control them, you could respond to the content of their post and admit they have a point. We all have choices. Saccharine positivity is ruining HN. In the past few days I've seen HN posts that: 1. Said a company's behavior only looks immoral, but it's actually not their fault, because they're just following incentives. 2. Said volunteerism isn't needed right now because lots of people are out of work. 3. Complained about a long-form article not containing science, because they only read the first few paragraphs of the article. The first is a reprehensible position, the second is harmfully ignorant, and the third is willfully ignorant. But all they had to do to get upvotes is say these horrible things in a nice tone. Responses which called a spade a spade got downvoted and/or deleted entirely. This isn't even "being kind". It's not kind to screw people over because you're following incentives. It's not kind to encourage people not to volunteer during a time when the need for volunteerism is at a high. HN is optimizing for a shallow veneer of being kind over actual kindness. I've considered just leaving HN in the past few weeks, but decided to stick around and try to change things. But at this point, getting downvoted or even banned doesn't feel like much of a loss to me. That's not to say you should care if I leave--you should care that your forum is becoming a place where people pat each other on the back for innovating, whether or not they actually innovate or their "innovations" are uninformed or harmful. And sure, this did generate some interesting conversation, but the most interesting thing to me is The Range Planet[1] link, which could have been the original submission. [1] https://therangeplanet.proboards.com https://therangeplanet.proboards.com