This isn't a conversation though, this is a forum. You (the general you) have the ability to google and fully prepare statements with however much time you want

This isn't a conversation though, this is a forum. You (the general you) have the ability to google and fully prepare statements with however much time you want to. You can even set a default time limit in the settings on your user profile on HN to give you time before a comment is visible to check yourself and rework a comment if you want. I use it on pretty much every comment. On a forum I would expect someone participating in a thread making an assertive comment to do a few seconds of due diligence. They don't have to have perfect information, or even be correct after they do search, but its pretty obvious when you just come in with 0 information at all. Normally that doesn't even bother me, but when an uninformed comment is used to belittle people or take an undeserved moral position, then yeah, I get pretty pissed.