Comment by dsfyu404ed

>It's likely because the subject matter requires a certain degree of intelligence, which tends to negatively correlate with trashiness.

I think you're confusing "more homogeneous" with "less trashy".

Trashy is just whatever the local minority does that the local majority finds repulsive.

A lot of the opinions conveyed in the commentary on HN that are reasonably well accepted would go over like a lead balloon in some other communities.