I don&#x27;t get why people think hacker news is this little utopia of internet discussion. Yes, it benefits from being smaller and well-moderated, but it suffers from the same group-think, the same &quot;circle-jerks&quot; (har har Golang&#x2F;Django&#x2F;Theranos), etc. There are plenty of snarky and lazy comments, we just up-vote them because we agree with them.<p>It&#x27;s amazing that a former executive of reddit thinks a) it&#x27;s easy to build a large online community b) it&#x27;ll be easy to monetize (the hardest part) community and c) it&#x27;ll be easy to moderate (hey people will do that for free, right?).