[zoeysaurusrex]

Totally agree. I've largely quit commenting here at all because of it. I always thought gross polarization of topics would never come to HN, but here we are.

[stupendousyappi]

I think HN still has one of the highest signal to noise ratios on the web.

[intended]

I’ll prove my counter point by calling you names.

Serious note: forums decay. Entropy in social media, and forum denizens exists. Such a result is unsurprising,

[OneWordSoln]

And the result is that the comments are really of very little use anymore. Time was they used to be enlightening.

Too bad Paul Graham doesn't give a rat's ass. He has the opportunity to create something beneficial to world society here but doesn't care to put in the money and thought to figure out how to make it work.