Anyway, I don't think such tone-policing is all that off-culture for HN, nor do I mind it all that much. PG explicitly said back around 2008 that posts which keep the discourse civil and intellectually honest are welcome even if they don't directly add content. I just thought that there's a certain irony about "old users trying to maintain the culture of this site" when the users in question are less than a year old and are responding to someone who's been here for 14 years.
Some of us change account names as a matter of internet hygiene. I think I've had 6 or 7 here over the years, and even this old one was dormant for most of its life. Anyway, the point is you never know just based on account age.
mmaunder: 2007. satellite2: 11 months ago. dexwiz: 2015. alonsonic: 2016. burnished: 8 months ago. nostrademons: 2007.
Anyway, I don't think such tone-policing is all that off-culture for HN, nor do I mind it all that much. PG explicitly said back around 2008 that posts which keep the discourse civil and intellectually honest are welcome even if they don't directly add content. I just thought that there's a certain irony about "old users trying to maintain the culture of this site" when the users in question are less than a year old and are responding to someone who's been here for 14 years.