[modarts]

Pretty sad to see HN become a parody of itself on a near constant basis: half of the comments attacked the article as "link bait" without even addressing the actual content. I've been watching OpenGov closely for the last year and have been impressed (and jealous that I didn't start this myself having worked in big gov IT shops my whole career and half jokingly playing around with the idea of a SAAS offering for publishing budget data online; something that seemed a difficult enough problem that I though it was magic when I was able to see it firsthand with OpenGov's software)

[unclebunkers]

It's one of the few places where the majority of the people either writing the posts or being written about are also the members doing the commenting. I think timezone may be a factor as well; I've made comments which were highly upvoted throughout the day, only to be decimated over the evening. So what your seeing as a parody of itself, I see as different gravity wells of opinion that present at different times. Who sees the story first often dictates the initial run. We'll see a woman in tech article loaded with borderline sexist comments against women, then a singular voice pops up and says how disappointed they are in the community. That gets voted to the top. It's routine, and it's essentially what happened to this article.