Looks like he's just talking about how users that start flame wars around the contentious topic of the day will forget about it soon and move on to the next top

Looks like he's just talking about how users that start flame wars around the contentious topic of the day will forget about it soon and move on to the next topic. Even if you disagree with him in regards to the topic that was posted on, I don't see how anyone can honestly misinterpret that badly enough to think he's describing HN as a whole.