Tell HN: Let's Be Civil
The root cause is not incivility, it's inanity.  Why do we have threads about these not-exactly-revolutionary things sitting all over the front page?  Who votes for this stuff?The Surface one up there is just some guy's blog review. It's not poorly written, but why are we reading randomly selected Surface reviews? There's an entire post right now that is basically a Samsung press release via CNET, describing some (totally unquantified, of course) minor uptick in sales for the latest Android phone.  There is literally nothing to talk about there except to proffer essentially baseless flames, praise, or speculation.I would have no qualms asking the moderators to fix this.  I can't understand any metric by which these are useful posts to have on the front page.  There is lots of much better stuff sitting on the New page which is being crowded out by noise that I could go read in two hundred other places.  "Intellectual curiousity" is not referring to what you have every time a phone comes out which is 20% lighter and 10% longer.