On issues where there's a large contingent of passionate haters/supporters on either side, polarizing articles from either extreme drive page views. It's just business.

It gets old though. I've come to realize over the past few years that the stuff I spend my time reading on Hacker News does take it's toll in mental and emotional energy. Often a lot more than I realized. If there's anything I wish I could filter from my media intake, it would be both iPhone Naysayer articles and responses to iPhone Naysayer articles such as Jim's here.