> What I like about HN is that the comments VERY RARELY descend into the inevitable political sniping that seems to happen almost everywhere else on the internet, even when discussing controversial topics like Trump, and even the percentage of snarky and dismissive comments is kept pretty low.
This is something, I thought, has gotten way worse since covid. I always explained it (mostly to myself) from the sudden influx of people that arrived faster than cultural assimilation could happen. Back then, it was only cryptocurrency topics where I preferred not reading the comments.
Nowadays, it’s so many topics where I quickly nope out of the comments again. It’s still better than most places, but that’s because it started from a far superior position.