Former Firefox dev for both desktop and Android here: I can definitely confirm that being constantly shit on wore me down a lot.
We could downvote all that stuff to oblivion. Instead, comments like it are voted to the top comment on almost every page.
If that ever really meant something, it has been so overused in the last few years that it's impossible to pick out any needles of serious use from the general default trendy grain silos of despair.
I'm not trying to get all of humanity to give up sex. I believe we can do better, here on HN, in this one regard. I am that insanely optimistic!
Thank you for your work!
HN should have an annual Appreciation Day, with no enshittification of threads.