i also don't think everything gets negative comments. it's the 'new' stuff (idea/startup/concept, not funny/interesting links). just based on your links, you'd

i also don't think everything gets negative comments. it's the 'new' stuff (idea/startup/concept, not funny/interesting links). just based on your links, you'd notice 'mainly negative' ones are 'new' stuff. positive ones are bash, excel spreadsheet, notepad++ etc. if PG built and posted one of his 'ambitious ideas' here (http://d.pr/if1q http://d.pr/if1q), say he made his new email program, i bet the most upvoted comment would be like; "... gmail does many of those things and already has X,Y,Z ... do you have any brains at all to understand email protocol is A,B,C ... you better spend your time doing research/study/..." this is what i'm seeing over and over again.