Why do people do this? Why place an opinion on ‘hacker news’ as if it is an individual mind? Hacker News isn’t one person constantly changing their mind it’s

Why do people do this? Why place an opinion on ‘hacker news’ as if it is an individual mind? Hacker News isn’t one person constantly changing their mind it’s a hive of constantly shifting debate about a new technology and all that implies. It would be weird if the opinions were uniform and unchanging.