On: Ask HN: Is it just me, or are HN comments becoming more and more negative?

[NikkiA]

Many of us 'newbies' came here because reddit has gotten near unbearable recently...

I suppose you can blame us for any recent decline in quality, although some of us do try not to pull the place down.

[endtime → NikkiA]

HN best practices (in contrast to reddit):

* Vote a comment up or down based on its quality, not on whether or not you like/agree with it.

* No politics.

* Downvote reddit-style conspiracy theory/rage against the machine comments...I have started seeing these sorts of comments on HN and it is making me very sad.