In my experience, the more the word "community" is used the less of an actual community exists. I grew up in a fairly religious household and the religious comm

In my experience, the more the word "community" is used the less of an actual community exists. I grew up in a fairly religious household and the religious community I was a part of growing up was the most tight knit group I have ever been apart of. Even if I don't practice it anymore I can show up at the religious center I grew up in and can see people I have known since I was born (I'm in my 30s now). One woman I see always tells me that she was the first person to feed me water. Many people never really get anything like that and it's a shame. Because people are so starved for some sense of real community, it's become a marketing buzzword. I do like that hacker news does have a set of rules, and people try to enforce them (i.e. avoiding divisive topics, down voting low value comments, etc), but this alone a community does not make.