> We're pretty skeptical here I'd say more precisely that we're blindly cynical, and that makes us pretty vulnerable to a certain kind of misinformation. When

> We're pretty skeptical here I'd say more precisely that we're blindly cynical, and that makes us pretty vulnerable to a certain kind of misinformation. When I'm bored, I pay attention to the 'new' posts. There are a few users that are constantly posting the kind of cynic bait that HN loves, dated any time from the last 70 years. It usually doesn't do very well (as in ranking on HN), but sometimes it does. I can't say all of it is misinformation, but when I bother to check, it often does turn out to be grossly misleading.