no one ever called HN "a bunch of know-it all bro-grammers who hate everything" before recently? In the past part of that perception has been a difference in s

no one ever called HN "a bunch of know-it all bro-grammers who hate everything" before recently? In the past part of that perception has been a difference in social standards, I think. Here we get people who can be enthusiastically adoring of an idea and doing their best to offer their ideas to improve it: and others (including the person they're trying to communicate with) may take it as unalloyed negative criticism. Part of is may be the twitter September people too. Its always the n00bs, after all. Everything was so much better before they showed up.