[L_Rahman]

This is fascinating. I want to turn as many of my biases as possible from unknowns to knowns, so I appreciate you pointing this out.

An exercise I've now decided to undertake is as follows:

Every time I see something that I feel is "uncritical adoration" I will challenge myself to look for evidence for the opposite of that in the same thread. I'll start with HN, but if this works I want to extend that elsewhere.

[dang]

Well, you made my evening by actually getting that particular point and finding it interesting. That is so rare! And it's such an interesting phenomenon.

I stumbled on this because the moderation job involves reading tons of comments I wouldn't otherwise see, and the various descriptions of HN they contain are quite incompatible. But they all fit the pattern described above.