[JangoSteve]

In general people like to root for the underdog. Especially here on HN, people like to root for the person who defies all odds to achieve success, the guy no one would have expected to become successful. Why? Perhaps because when we see it, it makes us feel as though we can do anything we put our minds to. And we don't need to go massively in-debt to "the man" in order to do it.

That being said, I posted an essay to HN not long ago which received a lot of positive feedback from the general public. However, it received not so much as one up-vote here on HN and vanished into obscurity. It was entitled "Want to be an Entrepreneur? College May Help."

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1315158

Just remember, as great and intelligent as the HN community is, it is still a very specialized group of people. No matter how unbiased a given community is, you will never find very diverse points of view as long as you solicit only one source for information.