Unfortunately there are some topics that would be genuinely interesting to discuss, but which the HN community just doesn't handle well. IMHO the best approach

Unfortunately there are some topics that would be genuinely interesting to discuss, but which the HN community just doesn't handle well. IMHO the best approach is to just try to spot those threads early, and maybe find other forums to discuss them [1]. [1] Finding suitable forums is left as an exercise to the reader. Maybe it requires in-person discussion with people who will assume each other's best intentions.