HN is one of those great communities where people usually don't comment when they they aren't qualified to comment. It's either that, or they get down voted to

HN is one of those great communities where people usually don't comment when they they aren't qualified to comment. It's either that, or they get down voted to heck and hell banned if they continuously post low quality material. It's probably more of the latter :) The one problem I have with HN is the basic/extreme bike-shedding situation we have here. Articles on hiring, firing, culture, etc. (softer - more bs subjects) and the singularity, complex economics and quantum physics (softer - more bs subjects for laymen) seem to get a metric ton of crappy comments from people who aren't qualified to talk about said topics and HNers seem to be much too nice (or don't care) enough to point out the crap for what it is. I try to avoid those types of posts nowadays.