A reminder for us all: The Hacker News newcomer welcome page.
My favorite part, which clearly shows that PG understands what the dynamic of a news site and it's users, is when it states:"The worst thing to post or upvote is something that's intensely but shallowly interesting."Frankly, I think this happens way too much.  Any post about Zuckerberg, Assange, Arrington, and others probably gets way more upvotes than necessary. While they have definitely created interesting things, the product is probably more important than the person.