[notRobot]

This is so true, I wish I could upvote this twice. I've been on the receiving end of this too, where something I wrote in the moment without much thought ended up at the top of HN with a whole lot of criticism.

[saagarjha]

I often do a pass to Hacker News (and Twitter, and Reddit)-proof topics which are not highly technical but are likely to appear on here.