[BuildTheRobots]

It's a shame your 'great example' has to deliberately misquote and mischaracterise the interaction.

The author asks "isn’t this a tech/VC blog? How is it that so many of you are so interested in and knowledgeable about agriculture?"

She asked why people were interested and were so knowledgable about a subject she didn't expect to appeal to this crowd. People explain the premise of HN and she then asks for other things this readership might be interested in. She didn't get hammered; she asked a question and got a number of honest, personal responses.

Not every website has to appeal to every person. The people who enjoy things that are presented here enjoy them. The people that don't are welcome to find a community that works for them.

I assume you were referencing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27809279

[cinntaile]

The GP is indeed completely mischaracterizing what happened in that thread, to the point where you can wonder if he really read that thread.

[dr_zoidberg]

The account was created a few hours ago today and seems to be a sort of burner/puppet to share controversial opinions.