I disagree. Even politics spurs intelligent, nuanced discussion here on HN.
And to hold up discussions about MS as an example of 'extremely' low quality discussion is, ah, interesting. Do you have any recent examples of such discussions?
Politics and philosophy discussions here are intelligent in that most of the commenters aren’t dumb. They tend to be entirely uneducated and resistant to the educated.
I hide every single article about MS because it's filled with all the neckbeardy tropes about their products being garbage spyware, switch to Linux, they're stealing your data, the OS is trash etc. It's comments from people who have never managed large scale MS based environments comparing their Windows Home to the other 90% of the business ecosystem that has nothing to do with home users or MS's main cash cow, businesses, Azure/Entra and M365. I'm done wasting my breath on MS here.
I'm describing why I no longer engage with MS related posts.
I’ve posted four comments here on Microsoft in the last 30 days:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41499957
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41408124
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41335757
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41327379
None of which fit your description of “neckbeardy tropes about their products being garbage spyware, switch to Linux, they're stealing your data, the OS is trash”.
And it isn’t just me, because if you look at those comments, I was talking to other people who weren’t invoking those “neckbeardy tropes” either
> spurs intelligent, nuanced discussion here on HN
relative to what? reddit?
also there's a trade off between entropy and "quality". too much "quality" and everyone gets bored and goes somewhere more entertaining