The other thing that never improves threads is everyone only posting what they think might get upvoted instead of saying what they actually think, especially when there might be a grain of truth in it. Tedious comment back-patting is the death of good communities.
How about we avoid both trollish sarcasm and tedious back-patting, and say what we really think politely? That's not so hard.
Everyone's gotta cool it with that meta-modding too. I'm sick of scrolling through tons of knight-in-shining-armor comments to get to the actual discussion tucked at the bottom of the page.
Yes they do. I learned that there are lots of places using golang in production, without even having to ask.