The audience isn't as a whole super smart. Sure there are very smart people that contribute to this community, but unfortunately they're outnumbered significant

The audience isn't as a whole super smart. Sure there are very smart people that contribute to this community, but unfortunately they're outnumbered significantly by a lot of poorly socialised idiots. One of the recent watershed moments for me was when I think it was PG posted a poll on the user ages, and there was a inordinate amount (obviously false) of very elderly senior citizens using HN. I remember PG remarking upon it.