[cauenapier]

That "standard phrases and emoticons" would break the whole idea.

But I guarantee the most of the times, the TownSquare in my site is much calmar and friendlier. People having actually interesting conversations. What you saw was a reflection of the page going FrontPage on HN

[SoftTalker]

Nice bunch of folks we have here, huh?

[johannes1234321]

You have a small amount of idiots everywhere. It requires just one to spam such a system.