Comment by yellowapple

> I feel like the world would be a better place if people would tone down the ad-hominem in their day-to-day discourse just a little bit.

    PRAGMA sarcasm = ON;

No, fuck you, I'm going to call you names and shit all over you over a mild disagreement!

    PRAGMA sarcasm = OFF;

But yes, one of the refreshing things about HN is that even when conversations get heated, the participants tend to at least keep to the topic and respect one another / assume good faith. There will of course always be slip-ups on that (I'd be lying if I said I wasn't guilty of that on occasion), but they've managed to be pretty rare (and/or quickly caught by the admins) even as HN has grown in popularity.