scoofy

It's an honest question. I know HN has always been a pretty feisty place, and people here tend to be contrarian, but within the last six months or so, I find myself overwhelmed with a level of cynicism that I find incomprehensible.

Discussions about politics regularly seem grounded in conspiracy theories. Discussions about tech company decisions seem to overwhelmingly focus an anti-consumer monopolistic goals, when entirely sensible parallel explanations seem obvious. I'm writing this because the discussion of Android side-loading seems to mostly involve people who think scamware is somehow irrelevant, when it seems to be an ever evolving threat.

This has caused my to engage a lot more recently, but I think it'll ultimately cause me to engage less. I don't think I can handle debating basic economic and political questions, when I'm actually trying to talk about some neat product.

Has HN just grown a lot in the last year or something? Is there a way that we could signal whether commenters have anything worthwhile to say? I'm fine with the way the site is, and I'll keep posting when I have something interesting to share, but it has been weighing on me recently.