My take: Any community is shaped by the intentions and attitudes of the members it attracts (and the ones it doesn't kick out). This sort of social orderliness

My take: Any community is shaped by the intentions and attitudes of the members it attracts (and the ones it doesn't kick out). This sort of social orderliness (encoded in "netiquette") was much more common pre-mass social media and has since widely regressed. Welcome to this corner where net culture sort of survived. Nurture it, and see the guidelines/FAQ at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html