HN's unwillingness to engage in meta conversation combined with somewhat vague rules and equally vague enforcement (sorry dang, although I do think you and the

HN's unwillingness to engage in meta conversation combined with somewhat vague rules and equally vague enforcement (sorry dang, although I do think you and the team do a good job in general) has really driven me away from participating as much as I used to. Many conversations worth having aren't had and many conversations had aren't worth having. The environment has been very polarized along certain lines and unfortunately I think trends towards reinforcing very myopic worldviews held by people with very skewed perspectives of the world at large. Just for some examples, crybullying runs rampant on this platform lately and I increasingly do not want to associate with a community that is used to coordinate and amplify personal attacks. Then there's the frequent contempt for the poor that tends to come up any time someone mentions rent regulations and/or zoning.