Wow. That's really nice kgermino: a not so veiled hint that I should leave this site because I have a dissenting opinion. And like I keep saying, it's not that I don't find the posts interesting or not. It appears that I was operating under the assumption that the submissions in HN are user-generated. Now that HN has gotten popular and can drive a lot of traffic towards a site I think that people should disclose the fact that they are affiliated with the source or not. And for saying that I repeatedly get downmodded. And that (in my opinion) says a lot about the mentality of HN. I was about the 19,000th person to sign up to SlashDot. When I say that I have certain expectations of sites like these I kind of am not talking out of my ass. If you don't mind I think I'll stick around for a while and see does the mentality of HN improve.