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I think that puts too much faith in the average person

• dr_dshiv 4y ago
  But it’s exactly the right expectation for a Hacker News comment. Already HN excels because comments avoid auto-outrage and meme-commentary.
  • yccs27 4y ago
    How high the comment quality here usually is becomes really noticeable when it's lacking under a post. The most common offenders are political posts with outrage potential, especially while knee-jerk responses are flooding in and before measured comments have had time to rise to the top. Recent example was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33931384 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33931384 about cash limits - Sooo many comments are just "Tyranny!", "EU bad!" and overall unmitigated cynicism.
    • t0bia_s 4y ago
      Their posts has same attitude like yours against those posts.
• throwaway675309 4y ago
  Not to obnoxiously gatekeep too much, but I'd like to think that the target demograph of hacker news is not the average pleb.