[beej71]

I think there's a blend of good and bad.

If you ever see a HN front page story where you have inside information about some event, you can rest assured there will be maddening amounts of completely wrong speculation written as if it were gospel by people with no connection to that event. And then people attack the strawmen with abandon.

And for professional reasons, you grit your teeth, keep your mouth shut, and let it all slide. I'm not in PR.

"Someone is wrong on the Internet": https://xkcd.com/386/

I agree that HN is better than a _lot_ of places. But it's not all wine and roses.

[nickthemagicman]

I guess I've never had inside information to see this firsthand.

Or maybe my internet spidey sense is so attuned that I've learned to subconsciously tune out B.S.

So I've never really seen that type of thing happening.

Does anyone really believe unverified information people post on the internet ?