a troll? no, have you ever tried to discuss a single topic that's here on hacker news in real life? i guess i am just ISOLATED. my question is not so much whether hacker news has a dating/social component option. rather, where in real life would one find members of the opposite sex in real life who actually read hacker news. regardless of what the content of a message is, i still find it enjoyable to have conversations in real life because of all the non-verbal communication that is also happening-intonation, body language, facial expression. and because i find the topics on hacker news extremely interesting, i am wondering where i can pursue discussion of these and similar topics in real life. the probability of finding such a person in a cafe/bar is negligible.