===== Why It Happens Theory #1 - "Community Size Syndrome" ==== I am guilty of this. And I think I know why I/we do it. When a topic comes up, and you feel your

===== Why It Happens Theory #1 - "Community Size Syndrome" ==== I am guilty of this. And I think I know why I/we do it. When a topic comes up, and you feel your voice isn't/won't be heard, it tends to make you over-emote, yell, and stomp though the place to get more attention / vent frustration. Think about it. It wasn't like this when Hacker News was smaller, because when HN was smaller there were less people, less comments, and everyone had a voice that could be heard. Now that the place is bigger your "voice" is easily lost, your comment ends up at the bottom, you feel like your opinion won't matter. This stresses you out and pisses you off so you go and piggyback off of someone else's comment near the top and just vent. We see this in political ralleys, demonstrations, protests. When humans feel they are NOT being listened to, they get loud and angry.