> That said, I think the tone on HN is fairly good I agree. I've been visiting HN for years, but I'm pretty new as a commenter. AFAICS the tone is rather nice

> That said, I think the tone on HN is fairly good I agree. I've been visiting HN for years, but I'm pretty new as a commenter. AFAICS the tone is rather nicely controlled by the mods (hi, dang!) and the community. I'm glad it's a place where people can say what they think, in fairly direct terms; I'm also glad that people are expected to think before they say. Whether conversations here are more polarized than in the past, I can't say. But societies have become more polarized lately; people are angrier, there's a lot more othering going on. It helps a lot that HN generally disapproves of political debates.