Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors
More and more websites are getting rid of user comments on their websites. Just in the last couple of months the National Review and The Atlantic have got rid of comments.<p>In simple terms they couldn't keep up with comment moderation and were not able or willing to invest in enough moderators.<p>So I have to give credit to HN to having one of the most civil comment sections on the internet. What I like about HN is that the comments VERY RARELY descend into the inevitable political sniping that seems to happen almost everywhere else on the internet,  even when discussing controversial topics like Trump, and even the percentage of snarky and dismissive comments is kept pretty low.<p>So, keep it up, dang and sctb!