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Why am I getting downvoted so much? (I'm not asking this flippantly, or protesting the fact that I'm getting downvoted. I'm just interested in knowing why -- I

• na85 13y ago
  As a relative newcomer (who didn't downvote) I can tell you that HN is a massive echo chamber.... That is the polite word for circlejerk. Opinions here are often heavily biased and the groupthink causes them to be self-reinforcing. In a world of serial entrepreneurs we've come to the oft-touted idea that "execution trumps ideas." Along the way that got perverted, and now people think you don't need to build something in demand. If your Execution is done well, a market will materialize. As a result the culture here is at times a hipster culture: the Old is denigrated while the New is idolized.