It's really comments like this that make me scared to death of posting a project to HN these days (so I don't). Seems to be so common now.

It's getting quite common for me to just skip reading the user comments after reading the article. This was never the case before; the comments were -almost always- better than the article.

As a sidenote, I cannot even recall when I actually read the user comments on Slashdot. On the occasion where something pops up in the RSS feed; read TFA and move on to happier things that actually make me feel good. :)

I guess I'm not saying anything new. I really wish I had a solution other than asking -you- to please imagine sitting at the receiving end: You get excited to see your project on HN, you click through to comments, and the first thing that was said was ... that.

PS. You can call me a chicken for being "afraid" of these things.