Here is the thing about Hacker News Comment Threads - They are precisely as mean as the subject/object allows. HN Commentators take pleasure in dissections (an

Here is the thing about Hacker News Comment Threads - They are precisely as mean as the subject/object allows. HN Commentators take pleasure in dissections (and even more pleasure in dissecting those dissections). That can be tough for people, especially if they submitted their content because they wanted feel-good feedback or some kind of community exchange. It is very easy to burn your fingers around here - one slip of technical details, get one fact of history wrong and you will be told. Ruthlessly and again and again. If anything at all about your content is distracting, that will be what users latch onto. Of course it's kind of bad, of course people are often dismissive because of trivial bits to the point where they actively obstruct themselves of interesting discoveries. But I value it's Zen-like quality. I know that if I ever were to submit something to HN, should it find its way to the frontpage, I would, definitely find out every single flaw about it. Quickly. From a technical perspective, that is kind of neat. From a social perspective, it's about as emphatic as a meat cleaver.