HN is the only community in the world where you will receive positive reinforcement for being disagreeable and contrarian. That's partly because we have a high

HN is the only community in the world where you will receive positive reinforcement for being disagreeable and contrarian. That's partly because we have a high diversity here, and a norm again downvoting to express disagreement - which means there will almost always be someone around to upvote a well-researched comment.