>[HN] is one of the most friendly online environments I know.
Um....wow! Are you and I on the same site? There's a lot of ways I'd describe HN, "friendly" isn't one of them.
Genuine meanness and cruelty is WAY more common here than friendliness and there's an overall tone of reactionism, cynicalism, and negativity for the sake of it. People here are very cocky and confident talking about things they don't know anything about.
Um....wow! Are you and I on the same site? There's a lot of ways I'd describe HN, "friendly" isn't one of them.
Genuine meanness and cruelty is WAY more common here than friendliness and there's an overall tone of reactionism, cynicalism, and negativity for the sake of it. People here are very cocky and confident talking about things they don't know anything about.