[hyperpape]

Ocean temperatures have been the subject of a half dozen HN articles (driven by articles in the news) in the past few weeks, so I assume that’s the reason.

Speaking for myself, not Dan, but for non-technical topics that appear on HN, the discussion would be a lot better if the average commentator read the obvious Wikipedia article before commenting. That’s true even though Wikipedia has a lot of problems.

[hutzlibu]

" but for non-technical topics that appear on HN, the discussion would be a lot better if the average commentator read the obvious Wikipedia article before commenting. That’s true even though Wikipedia has a lot of problems"

I have vague ideas of a forum, where any new poster has to answer some basic questions about the topic first correctly.

Most online discussions would probably benefit from that.

[rowanG077]

That's a great!!! idea. I get very frustrated reading HN comments that have obviously never read the article beyond the title.

[sanxiyn]

ControlProblem subreddit implements this and I was quite impressed.