The quality of comments was substantially worse when I commented. But even still, this thread is barely more than political rhetoric poorly disguised as personal opinions on the bay area. Many of which come from people who haven’t lived there and are using caricatures of lifestyle and people who are from there as the foundation for their opinions.

Threads get closed for less all the time.

It’s not that. It’s that these arguments are old and had a thousand times. I’m tired of it too. It’s the same people coming in and frequently it’s a lot of people who have never even lived in California or the Bay Area.

These threads bring out some awfully unproductive discussion on HN that is mostly a whine fest. And it’s all sides that whine and it’s old. It’s awfully old.

On a very small number of topics HN does appear to do that. My list so far: cryptocurrencies and urbanism.

It's really weird that this site has fairly balanced discussions of just about everything except those two topics. Whenver those two topics come up the result is incredibly one-sided. Like somebody powerful and opinionated has their finger on the scale...