[cal_dent]

I do always think there is some truth to the classic reddit post that says most of what you read on the internet is written by someone insane

https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/9rvroo/most...

[beacon473]

HN news is great because the crazies are high-functioning.

[gyomu]

Crazy high functioning people pretty much came up with every technical and social innovation modern civilization runs on.

No crazies = no Newton, no Dirac, no Marx, no Descartes, no Curie, etc etc etc.

[jerlam]

The insane people are fueling their own snarky communities making fun of them. There's subredditdrama, bestofdyingtwitter, linkedinlunatics, etc. Hacker News had its own - n-gate.com, sadly no longer updating.