Hacker - in a sense of someone who uses non standard approach to look at things. This matched the idea and still does. What saddens me is deteriorating quality

Hacker - in a sense of someone who uses non standard approach to look at things. This matched the idea and still does. What saddens me is deteriorating quality of discussions. I miss times/places when people had intellectual curiosity and respect to opponent's opinion if it doesn't lie along with yours. Perhaps it inevitably goes together with extended audience, but I do miss it. It still largely stands - luckily it's not reddit yet, but tendencies are somewhat obvious.