[close04]

> I assure you that a great many of them take great offense when you suggest that they are not experts in whatever they are speaking at a given minute.

That I can believe without question. I see it in action every day. But how are they any different from any social media influencer who has an opinion on everything and millions of followers and who use their existing clout to demand more?

One of the people high on that list once introduced themselves by the karma points from HN. That was the value they saw in themselves, that’s all that matters.

That HN leadership list has in the same page the typical serial posters or panderers, with an opinion on every mundanity under the sun, having 10-20 times the karma of other people in the list who bring genuinely unique and fascinating views of things that normal people never get to see or even know they exist.