Comment by boggled

It's venting. I'm assuming that a measure zero but nonempty subset of the HN community operates as a support group. The rest is either neutral or actively and gratuitously hostile. Incidentally, you could not "know" that my rant has no value to me, at least if you believe that knowledge is true justified belief, since the rant did have value to me. I do not claim that it has value to anyone else, though there may be some value in knowing how attempted collaborations can go awry in specific cases. Finally I am attempting to rectify the situation by recording my decision to leave. This makes it more difficult and potentially embarrassing to reverse the decision.