but (s)he&#x27;s been a member for more than 2 years and has a very high karma for the time. So I&#x27;m going to take this observation on HN&#x27;s tendencies seriously. Why should observations on the HN community&#x27;s biases inevitably solicit downvotes or finger wagging?<p>I personally love Vim and like to use it far outside its scope, but I recognise that there is a case to be made for many posts on HN being a little &quot;originality for originality&#x27;s sake&quot;.