Highly unlikely. It will take a lot more than wanting to have polite discussion on a tech forum to get people to change this base temperament - if it can be cha

Highly unlikely. It will take a lot more than wanting to have polite discussion on a tech forum to get people to change this base temperament - if it can be changed at all. It has very little to do with politics/civics per-se. It is an argumentative nature. I remember when HN/dang ran that no-politics week during Trump and called it a failure. In earnest, political discussions in _any_ thread suck the air out of the it and dominate the thread. It's sad, but such is HN.