>chance Yes I suppose I should find some serenity in the pure chance of things. >monolithic Yes it would be unfair of me to interrogate as if the comment-base

>chance Yes I suppose I should find some serenity in the pure chance of things. >monolithic Yes it would be unfair of me to interrogate as if the comment-base was a monolithic whole. So perhaps not monolithic, but still probably manifesting more shared responses to stimuli than the wider population at large. I definitely feel there's a distinct HN 'meta-personality', as I believe another replier re. organelles was alluding to. While forum moderation probably also shapes that to a degree, the meta-personality feels more the result of shared professional technical training (and knowing that others in the community are of like training, very very broadly speaking).