People on HN are frequently happy to support rudeness in their own interests. I remember debates here over rudeness in code and in bug reporting (someone was b

People on HN are frequently happy to support rudeness in their own interests. I remember debates here over rudeness in code and in bug reporting (someone was banned from Bugzilla over their language) and a lot of HN people seemed to feel that was fine. So I don't believe that the levels of civility are going down - but the level of vapid pointless comments is definitely going up. Fortunately I mostly see them being modded into oblivion.