I agree. I think the worst of HN comes out whenever anyone submits a personal blog post. If you read the comments for ANY blog post submitted, you will see how

I agree. I think the worst of HN comes out whenever anyone submits a personal blog post. If you read the comments for ANY blog post submitted, you will see how it has become a giant game to discredit everything the author says. I think it's good to be skeptical, and as nerds we have plenty of skepticism to go around, but there are ways to be do it with a little more taste and respect. I've been looking at some of the profiles of the main cynics I see time and time again and they have like 6000 karma, but only 3 submissions in their entire lives. Crazy to think they just get all of that karma from tearing down other people's work while not creating anything themselves.