Comment by sankalpb

Thanks, I'm fascinated that you bring up the 'inability...to have civil and productive conversation about things that matter, and like as not, politics does matter', what makes this the case here at HN, in your perspective? Also, can you say more about the how 'this community has the pretense of holding itself to a standard of intellectual merit and civility above the internet mainstream'? How do you think the this 'pretense' came to be held? why 'intellectual merit and civility'? and makes you say it is 'above' the internet mainstream?