Being good at computers and being exposed to a hacker ethic (whatever is left of it) doesn't guarantee your politic views (1) logical (2) anti-conformist (3) anything else, tho there are probably correlations. Add to that a forum dynamic in which those with the biggest rant to exhaust are the most likely to comment... hckrnews won't be terribly different than any other online forum. My biggest point, I guess, is that there is no "comments here" on most forums. Or at least there is a huge range. P.S. your assumption about age isn't warranted. I'm sure many comments you've ready are from teenagers.
Well, if I came "here" and stayed, it is because the level of reasoning was higher than any other form of online gathering I had ever attended to. Plus its design, moderation, and declaration of intentions makes for better, more informed debates. So I did experience a bit of disillusionment and intended this rant as some kind of a "suicidal" move : I was expecting to be downvoted to disappearance for not conforming to what a hacker news comment should be like : thoughtful, informed, interesting.
I fully agree with your three points and I am grateful I got to see your reply.
