[dredmorbius]

As one who shares your frustrations: working with the HN system, and pushing back where you feel it's appropriate, are both productive.

Dang (and earlier pg and sctb, and now I suspect tomhow) often express frustrations with the HN community's collective behaviour (a recent example: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43477305>). A key consideration is the fragility of the community and service itself (socially, not technically), as evidenced by, say, <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23047709>, and even more revealingly here: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22805993>.

Your argument is likely not with their beliefs or preferences, but the embodied practices of HN moderation. Which can themselves be problematic as they have a strong status quo bias, as I've pointed out repeatedly:

<https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...>.

Which often manifests as tone policing, as again I've commented (some overlap with above search):

<https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...>

Consider reversing that bias a hacking challenge.