But i'm growing up a bit. Who's to say an old-school non-computing-related engineer-ish sign-up couldn't have anything useful to contribute on HN. Isn't that motivation enough to fix it?
Personally, I love reading war stories from some of the older, wiser 'beards' on HN.
It's not so much that I think other people are idiots as much as I realize how much stuff is on here that is way over my own head. The thought wasn't that I don't want them here as much as it was "will they find anything here useful" but that really isn't my decision to make.