>Which is to say, it suffers from the same fallacy as when people complain about Hacker News' collective opinion as though a collective anything with voluntary

>Which is to say, it suffers from the same fallacy as when people complain about Hacker News' collective opinion as though a collective anything with voluntary participation is going to be in anyway consistent. It might not be consistent but even Ray Charles can tell you where the bell curve roughly centers for any given topic.